Bullock v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Shelton v. State (2001), Vincent v. State (1959)
37 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 Smith v. Commonwealth · Blair v. Commonwealth · Mullins v. Commonwealth · Cornett v. Commonwealth · Barton 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A certificate of pedigree is a mere declaration of the line of ancestors. There is no difference between an oral statement of a line of ancestors of a dog and a certificate of pedigree, except in form. The one is no more hearsay evidence than the other; neither is hearsay evidence in its technical sense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must point unerringly to the accused's guilt and it must do more than create a suspicion of guilt.”
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.