Bates v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2012
18 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 Wendling v. Commonwealth · Ellis v. Commonwealth · Logan v. Commonwealth · Howard v. Commonwealth · Hill v. Thixton
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This section of the Criminal Code, as applying to certain states of facts, has been construed by this court on several occasions, and it has been determined, that its provisions do not violate any constitutional right which the accused has. . . .” Then the court cites a long list of Kentucky cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.