Puckett v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1965
5 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 Deaton and Boggs v. Commonwealth · Goslin v. Commonwealth · Elliott v. Commonwealth · Sutton v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Tobin
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““accuse L. D. Cavitt of the crime of wilfully and maliciously shooting at another committed in manner and form as follows, to-wit: The said defendant L. D. Cavitt in the said county of Graves, on the 18 day of June A.D. 1962, and before the finding of this indictment, did unlawfully, willfully, feloniously, and maliciously with a gun or other instrument loaded with leaden bullets or other hard substance shoot at Theodore Sasseen with the intent to kill him but so that he does not die from the wounds.” (Emphasis added.)”
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.