Henderson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
September 1999
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Karnes v. Commonwealth · Tyler v. Commonwealth · Canter v. Commonwealth · Scruggs 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The conviction of the accused depends upon a mere guess, or at least upon the arbitrary adoption of an interpretation of the evidence which incriminates the accused, when the evidence is equally consistent with his innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.