Sizemore v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1939
6 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 Meadowcroft v. People · B'd of Com'rs of Excise, Etc. v. . Merchant · Hyser v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Greenbaum · Cockerell 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Therefore, when there is a prosecution under this section, the commonwealth may prove that the accused had a government license, and if there is other evidence conducing to show a violation of the statute, the court may, in addition to instructing the jury in the usual form under such an indictment, further instruct them that the fact that the accused at the time he committed the offense charged had this license is prima facie evidence of his guilt. The mere fact, however, that the accused had such license is not in itself sufficient to sustain a conviction. There must be other evidence showing a violation of the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mabe 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.