Gibson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently October 1979 · most notably Khaalis v. United States (1979), Grigsby v. Commonwealth (1945)
62 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 Kemmler · O'Neil v. State of Vermont · Wilkerson v. Utah · Pervear v. The Commonwealth · McDonald 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(Ordinarily, the defendant’s theory of the case is simply ‘not guilty,’ and this theory is fully presented by the instruction to acquit- him, unless he is proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. “However, there are eases where the accused admits one or more of the essential elements of the offense charged, but attempts to avoid conviction by proving facts or circumstances to excuse what he did, and under such circumstances his theory of the case should be set out in a special instruction. ” Gibson v. Com., 204 Ky. 748 , 265 S. W. 339 .”
4 later decisions 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.