Cannon v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Frady v. United States (1965), Wells v. Commonwealth (1978)
3 federal appellate · 35 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 11 Ga. App. 60 - Ponder v. State
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To agree to a verdict reluctantly involves the idea that, however reluctant the jury may be, and no matter to what the reluctance may be due, the feeling is one of internal consciousness within the juror’s own control, and the issue is finally determined (no matter how reluctantly) by the juror himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘It is not my verdict, I did agree to it, but I didn’t want to do it, it was against my will.’ And again the Court asket^ Is that your verdict now, and he said it\is, but it is against my will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall 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.