Winchester v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 1943 · most notably Shepherd v. Commonwealth (1930), Abshire v. Commonwealth (1940)
28 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 City of Dayton v. Lory · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. King · Combs v. Commonwealth · Netter's Admr. v. Louisville Ry. Co. · Harman 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was no evidence that Cogar (deceased) had any hostility to any one at Winchester’s home except him, or intended any violence to any one else. . . . The defendant himself testified that he shot the deceased because he was advancing on him with the knife and he believed himself in danger.” "”
2 later decisions 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.