Myers v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2003
20 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 Norfolk & Western Railroad v. H. I. Shott · Kibler v. Commonwealth · Gravely v. Commonwealth · Tyler v. Commonwealth · Butler 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As said in 2 Bish. New Cr. Proc. (4th Ed.), secs. 720,' 721: “ ‘2. Where there is both a general and special owner, the rule is nearly universal that the pleader may charge the goods as belonging to either,-though often the convenience of making proof will suggest practical grounds for choice. For example— . “ ‘3. Goods stolen from a common carrier—may be laid as his or as the general owner’s. More .fully— “‘Sec. 721. 1. Special ownership,—The rule is general * * * that where chattels are taken feloniously from any bailee or other special owner * * * the ownership may be laid either in such possessor or the real owner, at the election of the pleader.’ ””
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.