Latham v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2001
6 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 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Riverside Mills · Myers v. Commonwealth · Booth 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To sustain an indictment for larceny ... it is sufficient that the goods alleged to have been stolen are proved to be either the absolute or special property of the alleged owner.” * * * * * * “ ‘Where there is both a general and special owner, the rule is nearly universal that the pleader may charge the goods as belonging to either, though often the convenience of making proof will suggest practical grounds for choice.’ ” ♦ * * * * * “ ‘The rule is general ... that where chattels are taken feloniously from any bailee or other special owner ... the ownership may be laid either in such possessor or the real owner, at the election of the pleader.’ ””
1 later decision 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.