Commonwealth v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2018
8 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 179 Pa. Super. 501 - Commonwealth v. Aikens · Commonwealth v. Farrell · 159 Pa. Super. 45 - Commonwealth v. Joyce
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contrary to [Davis]'s contention, the uncorroborated testimony of Hanner in this case was sufficient to support [Davis]'s conviction of the unlawful possession and sale of narcotics.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a drug addict, because of moral perversion, may be untruthful”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“his reaction when it was injected into his blood stream.”
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.