Owens v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2017 · most notably State v. Rogers (1951), Dowden v. Commonwealth (2000)
14 federal appellate · 55 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 Bram v. United States · Siberry v. State · The People v. . Guidici · State v. Sheppard · Sims 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`... In order that the silence of one accused of crime following a statement of a fact tending to incriminate him may have the effect of a tacit admission, he must have heard the statement and have understood that he was being accused of complicity in a crime, the circumstances under which the statement was made must have been such as would afford him an opportunity to deny or object, and the statement must have been such, and made under such circumstances, as would naturally call for a reply. The test is whether men similarly situated would have felt themselves called upon to deny the statements affecting them in the event they did not intend to express acquiescence by their failure to do so. * * * '”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the argument of the plaintiff in error were sound, then no one accused of a crime could be compelled to submit to finger-printing, photographing, or the routine ‘line-up’ for identification, which are everywhere admitted to be proper.” 186 Va. at p. 702 , 43 S. E. 2d atp. 901 .”
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.