McDaniel v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1985
7 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 Shields' Admrs. v. Rowland · Banks v. Commonwealth · Jones v. Commonwealth · Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. v. Hamlin · Stewart 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It appears to us the commonwealth attorney made a deliberate and persistent attempt to bring to the attention of the jury evidence he knew was incompetent, and which was highly prejudicial to appellant’s right to a fair and impartial trial. A commonwealth attorney should not forget he is an officer of the court and should never attempt to deliberately bring before the jury evidence he knows is incompetent, or to get before the jury by an indirect method evidence which the court has excluded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cole v. Commonwealth
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.