Renaker v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 1995 · most notably Day v. Commonwealth (1917), Cavanaugh v. Commonwealth (1916)
37 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 Overstreet v. Commonwealth · Hargis v. Commonwealth · Parrish v. Commonwealth · Hayes v. Commonwealth · Gordon 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not every error of law on the record that will justify a reversal, but every error relied on will be subjected to the test: Did it prejudice the substantial rights of the accused? If it did, a new trial will be ordered; if it did not, an affirmance of the judgment of conviction will necessarily result.” (At 934).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“having him in duress or having authority over him.”
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.