Nolan v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2002
15 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 Allen v. Commonwealth · Hayden v. Commonwealth · Bradley v. Commonwealth · Wilson v. Commonwealth · Griffin 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For the purpose of affecting the credibility of this material evidence of an adverse witness, directly bearing upon the one issue to be tried by the jury as to appellant’s justification for his admitted killing of Hensley, his testimony was properly subject to impeachment, as here permitted, for discrediting it.””
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.