Banks v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 1950 · most notably Gray v. Commonwealth (1923), Davenport v. Commonwealth (1941)
33 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 Youman v. Commonwealth · State v. Griswold · Higgins v. Commonwealth · Miller v. Commonwealth · Wilson 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ‘search and seizure’ which the opinion in the Yonman Case forbids is a compulsory one, or one made in opposition to the will of the person in possession of the searched premises and to which he is compelled to submit, and is one made without his voluntary permission, and therefore a forcible one rendering the searcher a trespasser ab initio. It was not intended by the court in that opinion to hold that it would be unlawful or incompetent to search premises with the knowledge and permission of the one lawfully in possession thereof.” (Our italics.)”
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.