Trulock v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2006
1 federal appellate · 6 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 Whorton 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.
“... we cannot say that the language of the rule vests the trial court with any discretion in complying with it or permits us to determine whether a failure to comply was harmless error.... The Commonwealth argues that the issue of separate counsel was not preserved for review. Admittedly, neither appellant nor his attorney raised the issue until after his trial. However, they were not required to do so because the rule does not impose such a duty on the defendant. On the contrary, the duty to comply with the rule is imposed solely on the trial court. Therefore, a defendant cannot be found to have waived the trial court’s failure to comply with the rule.”
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.