Henson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2008
9 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 80 Cal. App. 200 - People v. McKee · Seymour v. Commonwealth · Hall 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Seymour v. Commonwealth, 133 Va. 775 , 112 S. E. 806 , Prentis, P., collected a great many cases bearing on this subject and held that the plea of autrefois convict or acquit was not applicable in the prosecution for the homicide of different persons in pursuance of the same conspiracy to commit the same robbery.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The acts constituting the second offense did not really commence until after the woman had been struck, at which time the first offense had been completed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the identical act and crime both in law and fact[.]”
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.