Floyd v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2018
9 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 Pannill v. Commonwealth · Trout 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘“A deadly weapon is one which is likely to produce death or great bodily injury from the manner in which it is used, and v/hether a weapon is to be regarded as deadly often depends more on the manner in which it has been used than on its intrinsic character.”’”
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.