Howard v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently April 1970 · most notably Ratliff v. Commonwealth (1918), Von Patzoll v. United States (1947)
2 federal appellate · 59 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.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant complains of the indictment because it charges him with being the principal, and at the same time of being the aider and abettor of the four other persons named therein, and of another person then and there acting with them, but who is to tho grand jury unknown, in the commission of a crime which was the result of a single act, the firing of a single shot.””
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.