Combs v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1988
17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to complete this offense it is not necessary that the accused shall actually make a sale. It is sufficient if he has the whiskey in his possession with -that intent. When the gist of the offense is the intent, then the jury may take into consideration all of the circumstances to determine that fact. Prom his own testimony the whiskey was not for his,personal use, In the minds of a jury in local option territory, 12 gallons of whiskey may be too much for one man to have at a time for his personal use, and is a strong circumstance to prove that it was in his possession for purposes of sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It must be remembered, however, that in determining the purpose of the defendant in a case like this,' the jury are not confined to his testimony alone, but háve a right to take into consideration- all the facts and circumstances surrounding the transaction.””
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.