Jolly v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2011
3 federal appellate · 13 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 Bannon v. United States · Lyons v. People · Porterfield v. Commonwealth · Myers v. Commonwealth · State v. Druxinman
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * The offenses charged in the third and fourth counts of the indictment are statutory, and neither the word `felony' nor the word `feloniously' is used in the definition. * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * In so far as Randall v. Commonwealth, supra, and other like Virginia decisions are in conflict with this conclusion, they will not be hereafter followed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“tried on their merits and as far as possible to ignore mere formal defects.”
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.