Wallace v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2003
14 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 Gillis v. Commonwealth · Keeton v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Browning · Scarf v. Commonwealth · Ches. & Ohio R. R. 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unless the facts necessary for a conviction of appellant in this prosecution for shooting Officer Ashby would have convicted appellant of one or the other charges for which he had been previously tried, a final judgment in those cases was not a bar to a prosecution under this indictment for shooting Ashby. ’ ’”
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.