Denham v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Heinze v. State (1945), Morse v. Commonwealth (1908)
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But, if the jury had been discharged as charged by counsel for appellant, even then as they had not left the presence of the court before being recalled and directed to retire to their room for the purpose of returning the second verdict, no injury could have resulted to appellant’s rights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Commonwealth
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.