Begley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
February 1934
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brennon v. Commonwealth · Owen v. Commonwealth · Graham v. Commonwealth · Alvey v. Commonwealth · Brown 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the first place, the affidavit of the appellant fails to show that greater diligence or earlier efforts on the appellant’s part to ascertain the whereabouts of the witness, would not have enabled him to locate and communicate with him and thereby procure his attendance and testimony on the trial.””
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.