Hansford v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 1944
21 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 Goslin v. Commonwealth · Buckles v. Commonwealth · Lockard v. Commonwealth · Blanton v. Commonwealth · Pace 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“«© « * upon verdicts of convictions in cases of felony, the court shall not pronounce judgment until two days after the verdict is rendered, unless the court be about to adjourn for the term.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crum v. Commonwealth
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.