Maxwell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2018
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Dejarnette v. Commonwealth · Burton & Conquest v. Commonwealth · Johnson v. Commonwealth · Houston v. Commonwealth · Wessells 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The attack made on the verdict is that the evidence shows that' if defendant is guilty ‘of any offense, she is guilty of robbery under the first count of the indictment, to-wit: robbery accomplished by ‘threat or presenting of firearms,’ for which offense the minimum punishment is eight years in the penitentiary; that, in view of the fact that the jury found the defendant guilty on the second count and fixed her punishment at five years in the penitentiary, there was an acquittal on the first count, and as there was no evidence to sustain the conviction under the second count, the verdict and judgment are void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]nything which calls out resistance is sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ali v. Com.
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.