Vinegar v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 1955 · most notably People v. Townsend (1921), Arnold v. Commonwealth (1922)
36 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 Commonwealth v. Hourigan · Paducah & Elizabethtown R. R. v. Commonwealth · Blyew v. Commonwealth · Redmon 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule was universal at common law that the allegation of time in an indictment was immaterial, except where the time of the commission of the act formed an ingredient of the offense, as in the case of Sunday offenses.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Townsend
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.