Howell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2012
19 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 Lascelles v. State of Georgia · Innes v. Tobin · Dunlavey v. Commonwealth · Karnes v. Commonwealth · Worthington v. State
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not an attempt to enforce the criminal laws of another State, but defines and punishes an offense committed in this State. Many States have similar statutes; others recognize the offense without the aid of a statute. 32 Am.Jur., Larceny, § 98, p. 1012. Such statutes are very generally held constitutional against such objections as are advanced in this case — double jeopardy, trial by an impartial jury of the county, denial of process for summoning witnesses, and the like. (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hickle
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.