Allen v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 1980 · most notably State Ex Rel. Pearson v. Probate Court (1939), Johnson v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Meredith (1942)
6 federal appellate · 42 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 Turner v. Commonwealth · Hoskins v. Commonwealth · Mullins v. Commonwealth · Thompson v. Commonwealth · Dunnington 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person * * * convicted a third time of felony * * * shall be confined in the penitentiary during his life. Judgment in such cases shall not be given for the increased penalty unless the jury finds, from the record and other competent evidence, the fact of former convictions for felony committed by the prisoner, in or out of this state.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any State or Territory, or of any such country, shall be proved or admitted in any other court within the United States, by the attestation of the clerk, and the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate, that the said attestation is in due form. And the said records and judicial proceedings, so authenticated, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from which they are taken.” 28 U. S. C. A., Sec. 687. [Emphasis ours.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Prince““Such statutes as our section 1130 (now KRS 431.190) do not punish twice for the same offense. They simply recognize that the first conviction imposed upon the one so convicted a definite status, that of a ‘convicted felon’ and then provide that, when parties of that status are convicted of a second offense, the punishment may be increased, and in a like manner the punishment may be increased for third convictions because of the status imposed by the second conviction.””
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.