Lanham v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1978
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 Overstreet v. Commonwealth · Gilbert v. Commonwealth · Maggard v. Commonwealth · Epperson v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Boaz
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Proof of nonconsent of the taking is a necessary element to constitute the offense, but this does not mean that the owner of the property must state in exact language that it was taken without his consent. Nonconsent, like any other fact, may be proven by circumstances and the evidence as a whole.””
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.