Hounchell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1957
3 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 Bartram 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * in giving instructions in criminal cases, and in that case emphatically indorsed and clinched the rule that instructions in every instance in criminal cases under and by reason of the section of\the Criminal Code of Practice, supra, must be in writing, unless waived by the defendant in person or by an attorney representing him, or when present by failing to object to oral instructions given by the court.””
1 later decision 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.