Wingfield v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1960
10 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 Clem v. State · Mulligan v. Commonwealth · The United States v. Adam Randenbush · Miller v. State · State v. Klugherz
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A plea of former jeopardy to be sufficient must disclose not only that the evidence heard upon a former trial was substantially the same, but it must disclose that thé charge formerly tried was the same charge now being tried, or some degree of it, and that the same criminal act was involved upon each trial.” '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““When the facts necessary to convict on a second prosecution would not necessarily have convicted on the first, then the first prosecution will not be a bar to the second. ’5”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In considering the identity of the offense, it must appear by the plea that the offense charged in both cases was the same in law and in fact.””
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.