Anderson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1965
24 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 Elmendorf 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While we cannot give onr full approval to this manner of instructing a jury upon the law relating to aiders and abettors, we are constrained to the opinion that appellant, Anderson, was not prejudiced in the slightest by the foregoing instruction. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The expression ‘in so taking said whisky’ relates to the manner in which Gfoodwin, Cranor, and Aldridge took the whisky, and, if that was done ‘feloniously and by force,’ Anderson was equally guilty with them.””
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.