McCurry v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 1944 · most notably Holcomb v. Commonwealth (1925), Watson and Kelly Caudill v. Commonwealth (1926)
34 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 Connor v. Commonwealth · Illinois Central Railroad v. Evans · Chreste v. Louisville Railway Co. · Deitchman v. Bowles · Sizemore 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jury no- doubt knew the parties as well as the witnesses; it heard their testimony .and saw their demeanor on the stand; it was also, no doubt, familiar with the state of feeling existing between the two participants; and, as we view the record, it is entirely without the province of this court to say, under the facts and proven circumstances, that the verdict was unwarranted as 'being flagrantly against the evidence. . . . We are authorized to reverse a judgment as being flagrantly against the evidence only when it appears that it was so much against the weight of the evidence as to shook the conscience and to clearly appear that it was the result of passion and prejudice on the part of the jury.””
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.