Powell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Sedlacek v. State (1946), State v. Parker (2010)
3 federal appellate · 50 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 In re Bonner · Clarence Murphy v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Henning v. State · Butts v. Commonwealth · Bryant v. United States
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The authorities are unanimous in the view that a court may impose a valid sentence in substitution for one that is void, even though the execution of the void sentence has commenced.” (p. 340.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fountaine · Rawls v. Com.“'[T]he imposition of [a] void sentence does not terminate the jurisdiction of the [trial] court.'”
2 later decisions 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.