Hewitt v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. Polimeni (1977), Commonwealth v. Moore (1975)
11 federal appellate · 17 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 Ashby v. Commonwealth · Slater v. Commonwealth · Robinson v. Commonwealth · Maxwell v. Commonwealth · Montgomery 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.
“Any person who shall take, drive or use any ... vehicle ... not his own, without the consent of the owner thereof and in the absence of the owner, and with intent temporarily to deprive the owner thereof of his possession thereof, without intent to steal the same, shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“intent alone distinguishes larceny of a vehicle from unauthorized use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tucker v. Com.
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.