Estep v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Cast (1990), Mills v. Commonwealth (1999)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 United States v. Ross · Wagner v. Commonwealth · Williams v. Commonwealth · Blake v. Commonwealth · City of Danville v. Dawson
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who asks questions which call for an answer has waived any objection to the answer if it is responsive. 1 Wigmore, Evidence, Sec. 18, p. 344 (3rd ed.1940); See West v. Commonwealth, 273 Ky. 779 , 117 S.W.2d 998 (1938).)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he granting of a continuance is always in the sound discretion of the trial judge, and unless it appears that he has abused that discretion, his determination will not be disturbed on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]f probable cause justifies the search of a lawfully stopped vehicle, it justifies the search of every part of the vehicle and its contents that may conceal the object of the search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peterson
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.