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Bowling v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

1922

Citation profile

61
cited by 61 later decisions
5
states following
November 1973
most recently cited

59 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 1973 · most notably State v. George (1926), Keith v. Commonwealth (1923)

59 state decisions

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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 Youman v. Commonwealth · Turner v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Riley · Mobley v. Commonwealth · King 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““It is a recognized rule in this jurisdiction that a conviction for violating a criminal law of the state may be had upon circumstantial evidence alone when it is of such force as to reasonably exclude every hypothesis of the defendant’s innocence. King v. Commonwealth, 143 Ky. 127 ; Peters, v. Commonwealth, 154 Ky. 689 ; Mobley v. Commonwealth, 190 Ky. 421 . This is especially true of violations of the liquor laws, which are nearly always committed with secrecy and by methods that often make detection difficult. ’ ’”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Hudson and Walker v. Commonwealth
  2. ““The appellant had no greater right to operate the still on the land than had the officers of the law to enter it; hence the possession of a search warrant by them was unnecessary. ’ ’”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. George

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.