Aldridge v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2011
16 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 Board of Penitentiary Commissioners v. Spencer · Lowery v. Commonwealth · Tolliver v. Commonwealth · Tolliver v. Commonwealth · Breeden 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever an act of the Legislature can be so construed and applied as to avoid conflict with the Constitution and give it the force of a law, such construction will be adopted by the courts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wood v. Commonwealth
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.