Marion v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably James Edward Kennedy v. Harold J. Cardwell, Warden (1973), 582 So. 2d 1008 - Wiley v. State (1991)
6 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Blair v. Commonwealth · Jackson v. Commonwealth · Donehy & Prather v. Commonwealth · Tincher v. Commonwealth · Taylor v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is a common-law right of a person being tried for the commission of a crime to be free form all manner of shackles or bonds, whether of hands or feet, when in court in the presence of the jury, unless in exceptional cases where there is evident danger of his escape or in order to protect others from an attack by the prisoner. Whether that ought to be done is in the discretion of the court based upon reasonable grounds for apprehension. But, if the right of the accused is violated, it may be ground for reversal of a judgment of conviction. Marion v. Commonwealth, 269 Ky. 729 , 108 S.W.2d 721 (1937). However, the failure, through an oversight, to remove handcuffs from a prisoner for a short time or any technical violation of the rule prohibiting shackling, not prejudicial to him, is not a ground for reversal. Marion, supra .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.