Drinkard v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1999
14 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 Roberson v. State · Knickerbocker v. . the People · Commonwealth v. McGorty · Porterfield v. Commonwealth · People v. Weisman
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The] corpus delicti [must] be proved before any inference of guilt can arise from the possession of the fruits of the crime. Where the charge is ... larceny, the corpus delicti is the larceny of the goods____ [T]he possession of goods [will not] give rise to an inference of guilt until the corpus delicti charged be proved by other evidence.”
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.