Abraham v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1962
16 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 · Gray v. Commonwealth · Price v. Commonwealth · Terrell v. Commonwealth · Adams 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The warrant fully complied with the law in every essential, and from that fact the presumption would arise that it was preceded by a proper affidavit, and the burden was on the defendant to show the contrary. ’ ’ Abraham v. Com., 202 Ky. 492 , 260 S. W. 19 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. Commonwealth
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.