Commonwealth v. Tanner’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2018
17 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 Strickland v. Washington · Barker v. Wingo · Holmes v. United States · American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp. · Commonwealth v. Saferian
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A failure to object to a continuance or other delay constitutes acquiescence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Delay in which the defendant acquiesces or from which he benefits should be excluded in measuring the length of any delay.... A failure to object to a continuance or other delay constitutes acquiescence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The record does not show any objection by the defendant to continuances”
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.