Stover v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Beavers v. Commonwealth (1993), Bishop v. Commonwealth (1984)
54 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 Inge v. Commonwealth · Thomas 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Suspicion. . . no matter how strong is insufficient to sustain a criminal conviction.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he chain of necessary circumstances must be unbroken.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“suspicious conduct which does not constitute evidence sufficient to support a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt”
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.