Conley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 1961 · most notably Hopkins v. Commonwealth (1925), Igo v. Smith (1940)
29 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 Hoskins v. Commonwealth · Holcomb v. Commonwealth · Catron v. Commonwealth · Miller v. Commonwealth · Clark v. Burchett
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When upon the trial of a case, either party offers to introduce a plat, the court should refuse to allow the plat to be used until it is filed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Igo v. Smith
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.