Prince v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2018
7 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 Franklin v. Commonwealth · Reid v. Commonwealth · Couch 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In 56 Am.Jur., Weapons and Firearms , Section 10, it is said: '* * * a weapon is generally held to be concealed when so placed that it cannot be readily seen under ordinary observation.' ... [O]rdinary observation in such a case as this means the weapon must be open to ordinary observation to those who may come in contact in the usual and ordinary associations with one carrying the weapon. We believe that this was a case for the jury. Franklin v. Commonwealth , 195 Ky. 737 , 244 S.W. 299 [ (1922) ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] weapon is generally held to be concealed when so placed that it cannot be readily seen under ordinary observation.”
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.