Bateman v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Jones v. Commonwealth (1967), Bourgeois v. Commonwealth (1976)
1 federal appellate · 35 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 Pine v. Commonwealth · Hundley v. Commonwealth · Bullock v. Commonwealth · Hanbury v. Commonwealth · Benton 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Aside from the improper direction that the ‘presumption becomes conclusive,’ the instruction placed upon the defendant the burden of explaining the ‘possession or forgery’ of the instrument. While the defendant, if innocent, might have satisfactorily explained his possession of the instrument, it is difficult to see how he could have explained the forgery. “The instruction should have told the jury that the unexplained possession of a forged instrument by one who endeavors to obtain money thereon is prima facie evidence that such person forged the instrument, but that such prima facie evidence may be rebutted by an explanation satisfactory to the jury as to how he came into possession of the instrument.” Bullock v. Commonwealth, supra at 563, 138 S.E.2d at 265 .”
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.