Eve v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1971
9 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 Blair v. Commonwealth · Bullock v. Commonwealth · Barton v. Commonwealth · Cheek v. Commonwealth · Gill 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been held in a number of cases that the instruction as to reasonable doubt should always follow in substance the language of Section 238 of the Criminal Code of Practice, and that the court should not enlarge on the language of the Code by saying the law presumes the innocence of the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pack v. Commonwealth““We have frequently held that failure to define the terms ‘willfully,’ ‘feloniously,’ and ‘maliciously’ is not prejudicially erroneous.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pack v. Commonwealth
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.