Henderson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2011
18 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 Cabbler v. Commonwealth · Williams v. Commonwealth · Hutchinson v. Commonwealth · Gravely v. Commonwealth · O'Brien v. O'Brien
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘“It is not necessary that the identity of stolen property should be invariably established by positive evidence. In many such cases identification is impracticable, and yet the circumstances may render it impossible to doubt the identity of the property, or to account for the possession of it by the accused upon any reasonable hypothesis consistent with his innocence.’ [Citation omitted]. . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fingerprint evidence, standing alone, is insufficient identification of criminal agency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“supports a credible exculpatory explanation of the existence of fingerprints.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.