Quoting%20commentary for Sanhedrin 71:16

אמר רב שונה אדם לתלמידו ודן עמו בדיני נפשות מיתיבי הטהרות והטמאות האב ובנו הרב ותלמידו מונין להם שנים דיני ממונות ודיני נפשות ודיני מכות קידוש החדש ועיבור שנה אב ובנו הרב ותלמידו אין מונין להן אלא אחד

But he [Solomon] slew him! — We are referring to his whole life-time. Was there not Hezekiah? — [with him] was Shebnah.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whose college was larger than Hezekiah's. V. supra 26a. ');">¹⁶</span> But he was slain [during Hezekiah's life-time]! — We are referring to his entire life-time. But was this not true of Ezra? — No, for [with him] was Nehemia the son of Hachalia. R. Adda b. Ahabah said: I similarly affirm that since the days of Rabbi until R. Ashi we do not find learning, and high office combined in the same person. But do we not: was there not Huna b. Nathan?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Zeb. 19a. which refers to his intimate friendship with the Persian King, Yezdegerd. [According to Sherira's Epistle, he was exilarch in the time of R. Ashi.] ');">¹⁷</span> — Huna b. Nathan was certainly subordinate to R. Ashi.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [He surrendered one by one his prerogatives to R. Ashi, v. Blank, REJ. XXX, 51.] ');">¹⁸</span> WHEREAS IN CAPITAL CHARGES, WE COMMENCE WITH [THE OPINION OF] THOSE ON THE SIDE BENCHES. Whence is this derived? R. Aha b. Papa said: Scripture states, Thou shalt not speak<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'Answer'. ');">¹⁹</span> 'al rib [in a case]<a rel="footnote" href="#56a_20">²⁰</a> — [i.e.,] thou shalt not speak 'al rab, against the chief [of the judges]. Rabbah b. Bar Hana deduced it in R. Johanan's name from the following verse, And David said unto his men, gird ye on every man his sword; and they girded on every man his sword, and David also girded on his sword.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Sam. XXV, 13. I.e., the question whether Nabal the Carmelite's act was to be treated as rebelliousness against the king was here discussed and a vote taken in the form of girding on the sword. David was the last to express his opinion. ');">²¹</span> Rab said: In capital charges one may instruct his disciple,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the laws relating to such cases, and the pros and cons for conviction. ');">²²</span> and pronounce judgment with him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The master and the disciple have each a separate vote. ');">²³</span> An objection was raised: 'In cases of cleanness and uncleanness, a father and his son, or a master and his disciple count as two;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since such cases could at the outset be decided by a single person, the need for voting arises only in the event of a controversy. ');">²⁴</span> but in monetary cases, capital cases of flagellation, the sanctification of the month and the intercalation of the year, a father and his son, or a master and his disciple count only as one'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since these cases require at the very outset a fixed number of judges. Tosef. Sanh. IV. ');">²⁵</span>

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