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Elliott v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

1922

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
states following
October 1959
most recently cited

32 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 1959 · most notably Deaton and Boggs v. Commonwealth (1927), Acree v. Commonwealth (1932)

32 state decisions

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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 Bennett v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Tobin · Brooks v. Commonwealth · Mitchell 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““It is an indispensable requisite of a valid indictment, that it shall state with certainty and directness the offense of which it accuses the defendant of committing, and if the offense has not a name, and is created by a statute, which does not give it a name, but merely describes it, the indictment should in naming the offense follow the statute.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Commonwealth v. Estes
  2. ““An indictment must charge in its accusing part the public offense for which it is intended to present the accused, and in the descriptive part must state the facts which, if established by the proof, constitute the offense charged.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Commonwealth v. Estes
  3. ““The indictment must be direct and certain, as regards . . . the offense charged.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Deaton and Boggs 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.