Tartar v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1961
9 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 Levering v. Commonwealth · Clary v. Commonwealth · Overstreet v. Commonwealth · Frank v. State · Parrish 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The absence of counsel for defendant when the jury render, their verdict is not ground for a new trial unless the jury are not polled by reason of such absence, and the objection may be waived.” See, also, 23 C.J.S., Criminal Law § 1450.”
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.