Penman v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 1998 · most notably Bolin v. Commonwealth (1925), Tarrence v. Commonwealth (1953)
30 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But neither the motion for a continuance, nor other part of the record discloses any fact that would even tend to show he was not as well prepared for trial at this term as he would have been at a subsequent term. Nowhere do we find the name of any witness that was needed in his defense, or mention of evidence that was not introduced in his behalf. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The only power the court has to grant a change of venue is conferred by the statute ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beaven v. McAnulty
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.