Johnston v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 1996 · most notably Barnes v. Commonwealth (1918), Ratliff v. Commonwealth (1918)
58 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 Levering v. Commonwealth · Hayden v. Commonwealth · Ochsner v. Commonwealth · Fueston v. Commonwealth · Nicoll 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellee had the right upon cross-examination to ask appellant questions tending to show that he was not an impartial witness as between deceased and Lonnie Johnston, and to contradict by other evidence his answers to such question (Hayden v. Commonwealth, 140 Ky. 636 , 131 S. W. 521 ), and we think it was competent for this purpose to ask appellant whether or not he had made the alleged statement to Mrs. Stowe, and upon his denial to contradict him by her evidence. This evidence, however, was permissible only to affect his credibility as a witness, and the same necessity existed to admonish the jury of its purpose as to the testimony in reference to appellant’s moral character.””
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.