Patrick v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1951
22 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 Tipton v. Commonwealth · National Council Daughters of America v. Polsgrove · Yates v. Stevenson · Louisville Bridge Co. v. Neafus · McNeal's Admr. v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any of said transcripts of testimony made by such reporter, as aforesaid, when attested by the judge before whom the trial was had, may be taken, without being copied, to the court of appeals, to be used upon an appeal #”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carter v. Scott
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.