Moseley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 1977
23 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 Gordon v. Commonwealth · Hale v. Commonwealth · Tucker v. Commonwealth · Stewart v. Commonwealth · Dunn 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘£ The crime of carnally knowing a female under the age of eighteen years is a degree of the crime denounced ¡by section 1154, Kentucky Statutes, denominated 'carnally knowing a female against her consent. Dunn v. Commonwealth, 193 Ky. 842 . The court, therefore, should have instructed 'the jury upon the law governing the crime of attempt to rape, for it is a degree of the crime of rape.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Page v. Commonwealth““The evidence for the commonwealth does not satisfactorily prove a case of rape because it is very doubtful whether there was penetration. Penetration is essential to the crime, but may be proved or disproved by circumstances.””
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.