Lewis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably Yeoman v. Com., Health Policy Bd. (1998), Commonwealth v. Wasson (1992)
31 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 Youman v. Commonwealth · Clark v. Hampton · Little v. Commonwealth · Siler 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In fact, the inhibition of the section (section 10 of the Constitution) is directed as much against the seizure of one’s person without proper authority to do so as it is to the searching of any place or other thing mentioned in the.section belonging to-or ip the possession of him. Clark v. Hampton, 163 Ky. 698 ( 174 S. W. 490 ); State v. Peterson ( 27 Wyo. 185 , 194 P. 342 ), 13 A. L. R. 1284; the Youman case ( 189 Ky. 152 , 224 S. W. 860 ), supra, and annotations in the same volume of A. L. R. on. page 1316.”’ •!”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ • • • or if any person shall be drunk or intoxicated on any public or private road or in any passenger coach, street car or other public place or building or at any public gathering, or if any person shall be drunk or intoxicated and shall disturb the peace of any person he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, &c.””
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.