Etherton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
September 1977
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coleman v. Commonwealth · Hendrickson v. Commonwealth · Denham v. Commonwealth · Taylor v. Commonwealth · Bolen 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.
“[I]t is the commission of the second felony after conviction for the first, and the commission of the third felony after conviction of the second that is deemed to make the defendant an incorrigible. The indictment, the evidence, and the instructions should make that status clear, [citing cases].”
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.