Graham v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2000 · most notably Blackburn v. Commonwealth (1923), Fields v. Commonwealth (2000)
28 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 Allen v. Commonwealth · Mansfield v. Commonwealth · May v. Commonwealth · Brennon v. Commonwealth · Heck 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While cases of homicide are to be found in which instructions advising the jury of the purpose for which voluntary drunkenness, though not excusing the crime, might be considered by them, it will be discovered that in these cases insanity was the defense relied on. Mathley v. Commonwealth, 120 Ky. 389 ( 86 S. W. 988 , 27 Ky. Law Rep. 785 ); Wright v. Commonwealth ( 72 S. W. 340 ) 24 Ky. Law Rep. 838 (1838). On the other hand, it has been held in numerous cases that in the absence of a plea of insanity, the refusal to give such an instruction was not error. ’ ’”
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.