Roy v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2000 · most notably Smith v. Commonwealth (1978), Patterson v. Commonwealth (1981)
38 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 Zirkle v. Commonwealth · Barber v. Commonwealth · Quidley v. Commonwealth · Ballard v. Commonwealth · Harold 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are exceptions, however, to this rule, as well established as the rule itself, and such evidence may be admitted to show motive, intent or guilty knowledge, or when it is connected with or leads up to the offense for which the accused is on trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“put in issue a question which was an essential element of the case against him. If he was devoid of all guilty knowledge [of numbers books and the numbers game], then he was innocent of the charge against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lockhart v. Com.“voluntarily and with the quite manifest purpose of improving his standing with the jury, put in issue his residence and occupation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lockhart v. Com.
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.