Broyles v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2017
19 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 Housman v. Commonwealth · Postell v. Commonwealth · Vaughan v. State · 87 Okla. Crim. 313 - Lowrey v. State · 40 Wash. 2d 840 - State v. Cyr
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]hen the judiciary attempts to anticipate the rules of the legislative and executive departments relating to the parole of prisoners, and attempts, in effect, to circumvent those rules it infringes upon the prerogatives of other departments of government.””
2 later decisions 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.