Prater v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Henry v. Commonwealth (1950), McCray v. City of Lake Louisvilla (1960)
25 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 Puckett 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * for purposes of identification of an automobile in transit no other number could be used than that appearing upon the license plate. It is difficult to imagine a more definite description of a thing or possession to be searched under this search warrant than that given. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hines v. State · Bowling v. State““Appellant insists that neither the affidavit nor warrant [search] charges a public offense, and that his demurrer should have been sustained. The affidavit for it and the search warrant itself do not contain the charges under which appellant was tried. In other words, they do not constitute the pleading preferring the charge of the commonwealth against defendant.””
1 later decision 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.