Commonwealth v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Stoltzfus (1975), Commonwealth v. Jones (1992)
85 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Tumey v. State of Ohio · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The minimal standards of constitutional due process guarantees [sic] to the criminally accused a fair trial by a panel of impartial and `indifferent' jurors. . ."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]ur system of law has always endeavored to prevent even the probability of unfairness.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The theory of our system is that the conclusions to be reached in a case will be induced only by evidence and argument in open court, and not by any outside influence, whether of private talk or public print.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.