Clary v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 1971 · most notably Ratliff v. Commonwealth (1918), Music v. Commonwealth (1919)
2 federal appellate · 65 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When one is being tried for a crime the relevancy of the proof of other crimes of which he has been guilty is only in cases where a crime has been proven and proof of -some other crime is necessary to identity the accused as the person who committe'd the crime proven, as above stated; or where it is necessary to show 'guilty knowledge in the accused it is relevant to prove that at another time and place, not too remote, the accused committed or attempted to commit a similar crime to the one of which he is accused; or where it is necessary to show a particular criminal intent in the person on trial; or to show malice in him or the motive for the commission of the crime; or to show that the crime of which he is being tried is a part of a plan or system of criminal actions, it is relevant to prove against the accused under proper instructions of the court to the jury, other crimes of which the accused has been guilty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In 25 Cyc. p. 77, referring to an indictment for larceny, it is said: ‘Where an offense is substantially set out in an indictment, a matter of description may be omitted, where a good excuse for such omission is given, as that a fuller description is unknown. But, if the description was not unknown as alleged, it is a fatal variance.’”
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.