May v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 1977 · most notably Ratliff v. Commonwealth (1918), Bantum v. State (1952)
2 federal appellate · 54 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 Bishop 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A new trial will not be granted on account of newly discovered evidence which merely tends to impeach, or discredit an opposing witness, or is only cumulative.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.