Whitlow v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2006
4 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 Wadley 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a general rule, however, where there is some evidence that the taking was under claim of right on the part of the accused, evidence that the property was taken openly, without any concealment or subsequent effort to conceal the taking, is evidence of good faith in the claim of right thereto and is frequently stated by the courts to be strong evidence or very powerful evidence thereof.” Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here can be no embezzlement where the property is taken `under an honest belief that . . . the accused had a bona fide claim of right to do so,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gunn 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.