King v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 1972 · most notably Bowling v. Commonwealth (1922), Brent v. Commonwealth (1922)
27 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 Sizemore v. Commonwealth · Anderson 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is, however, necessary to sustain a prosecution that the Commonwealth in a case like the one before us should show first: That the person being prosecuted had in his possession liquors’; and second, that he had it for the purpose of selling it in local option territory. ¡But, it is not essential to sustain a conviction that direct evidence of either of these facts should be made by the Commonwealth. A conviction may be had upon circumstantial evidence.””
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.