Collins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1969
15 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 Brent 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The offense of buying, bargaining for, selling, loaning, owning, or having in possession an illicit or moonshine still (of one of which defendant was necessarily convicted under the instructions of the court), are acts denounced by chapter 168, page 676, of the Session Acts of 1918, the punishment for which is, for the first offense, a fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00 and confinement in the county jail, for not exceeding six months. We held in the recent case of Brent v. Commonwealth, 194 Ky. 504 , that the above enumerated acts relating to illicit or moonshine stills as denounced by the 1918 statute, were not repealed in the 1920 act, supra."”
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.