Estes v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It appears from the record both by an order- and the endorsement on the indictment that it was. returned September 27, 1921, therefore it should be treated as having been found by the grand jury as of' that date; and as it is alleged in the indictment that the statutory crime therein charged was committed by the appellant September 26, 1921, and the time-thus stated was a day before the day upon which the indictment was returned, it clearly fixed the commission of the crime as occurring before the finding of the indictment. This, as held in Commonwealth v. Cain, 14 Bush 525 , and Morgan v. Commonwealth, 172 Ky. 684 , was a substantial compliance with the requirement of section 129, Criminal Code, because the court is authorized on demurrer to assume that: the offense was committed on the date and at the-time charged in the indictment, though the Commonwealth on the trial is not confined to the time alleged,, but will, if the offense be a felony, be permitted to prove that it was committed at any time before the-finding of the indictment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mullins v. Commonwealth