Pardue v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 1968
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 Mullins v. Commonwealth · Mitchell, H. Conley C. Conley v. Commonwealth · Jones 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is true that one may be convicted on circumstantial evidence, such evidence must do more than point the finger of suspicion at the accused.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hays 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.