Tewmy v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1953
10 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 Lakes v. Commonwealth · King v. City of Owensboro
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact of the appellant’s guilt'miist be found, if at all, from inference arising from the presumption .of guilt because of her mere occupancy of the - premisés upon which the contraband liquor was found as a •member of her husband’s household, he of course being, under the proven facts, the head of the family as well as the controller of the premises. It would, probably, be a different case if the premises were owned or rented and thereby under the control of the wife as the director of the home. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If a wife could be convicted under such circumstances, then any other person on the premises, including children of sufficient age to be responsible for their criminal acts, could likewise be convicted, and which convictions would necessarily be bottomed upon a mere inference or suspicion that the accused had some criminal connection with the commission of the offense. ’ ’”
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.