Runyon v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 1949
21 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 Morse v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Barney · Meade v. Commonwealth · Housman v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. McGarvey
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That any person who shall' sell, dispose of or convert to his or her own use or the use of another, any money, property, or other thing of value without the consent of the owner thereof, shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years; if the money, property, or other thing -of value so sold, disposed of or converted to his or her own use be of the value of twenty dollars or more; or be confined’ in the county jail for not less than one nor more than.twelve months if the value be less than twenty dollars.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In order to sustain a conviction for this offense (under section 1202) it must be alleged and proven that the injured party is either a bank or a corporation. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bass v. Commonwealth
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.