Commonwealth v. Beavers’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1997
11 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 Ex Parte Nielsen · 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · Ex parte Siebold · Ex Parte Tobias Watkins · Coy
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question was one for judicial determination, and it was by no means one without difficulty. To say that since the decision in the Gimmell Case, supra, every judgment for felony rendered prior to that decision upon indictments charging simply the unlawful manufacture of ardent spirits is void, is inconceivable. It may be true that all the courts were in error in holding such indictments charged a felony, but such holding was the law of each case, subject to review for error, and did not render the judgment of the court void because it had no power to pronounce the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fulcher v. Palmer
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.