Opanowich v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2019
23 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 Bowie v. Commonwealth · Nicholas v. Commonwealth · Orange v. Commonwealth · Harrison v. Commonwealth · Atlantic Coast Realty Co. v. Robertson's
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Because] [a]n examination of the body of a dead person will not always disclose whether death was from natural causes or by means of violence[,] ... [t]he circumstances surrounding the cause of death may be inquired into.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the secretive and unnatural manner in which she disposed of the body of the child,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.