Hartman v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 1972
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 Utterback v. Commonwealth · McKinney v. Commonwealth · Nelson v. Commonwealth. · Bailey v. Commonwealth · Brown 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have many times held that in order to constitute one an aider and abettor it is not necessary to go so far as to show that he was actually present at the same time the crime was committed and took a part therein, but that one may be convicted if it is shown that he was constructively present at thg time of its commission and participated in some way in the crime committed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hunt 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.