Ash v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 1943 · most notably 91 W. Va. 659 - State v. Wills (1922), Hoyer v. State (1923)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Boyd v. United States · Youman v. Commonwealth · Turner v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Riley · Banks 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The people shall he secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions from unreasonable search and seizure; and no warrant shall issue to search -any place, or seize any person or thing, without describing them as nearly as may be, nor without probable cause supported by oath or affirmation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.