Lakes v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 1965
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 Bowling 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the mere fact of finding the still, located where it was, under the proven circumstances, was insufficient to" create other than a mere surmise as to the existence of even a possibility that the defendant might have been its owner is perfectly manifest, and with it eliminated the only remaining substantive testimony was that relating to the defendant’s reputation, -which, as we have seen, was insufficient to sustain the conviction, and the court erred in overruling defendant’s motion for a peremptory acquittal.””
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.