Lewis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 1961 · most notably State v. Williams (1959), Maulding v. Commonwealth (1916)
46 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 Dilger v. Commonwealth · Petrie v. Cartwright · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Graves' Assignee · York v. Commonwealth · Ewing 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If he did not exercise reasonable care in handling his pistol, and from this cause fired the shot, he was guilty of involuntary manslaughter, though he did not intentionally fire the shot that killed Puckett. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.