Abdon v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1971
14 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 Ratliff v. Commonwealth · Allen v. Commonwealth · Brown v. Commonwealth · Sandefur v. Commonwealth · Dunbar 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A confession of a defendant, unless made in open court, will not warrant a conviction unless accompanied with other proof that such an offense was committed.””
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.