Kirby v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 1951 · most notably Duvall v. Commonwealth (1928), Sneed v. Commonwealth (1931)
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 Clary v. Commonwealth · Richardson v. Commonwealth · Moore v. Commonwealth · Thomas v. Commonwealth · Bess 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.
“‘ ‘ Certainly, the extraneous crime proved by the commonwealth in this case did not tend to prove that appellant had any peculiar plan or system of stealing cars and the admission of the evidence as to the other crime was wholly unnecessary to establish the identity, guilty knowledge, or criminal intent of appellant as the author of the theft in question. Hence the testimony was incompetent. ’ ’”
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.