Commonwealth v. Stepp’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1959
7 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 County v. Arthur · Brown v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Lane
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no provision of the Code nor any statute which requires the indictment to be subscribed at its end by the commonwealth’s attorney, nor to be subscribed by any one, and hence would be sufficient if subscribed by no one.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stoots v. State
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.