Commonwealth v. Bradshaw’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The authority of a party to testify and the county clerk to administer an oath with referenece to such a paper as here involved is found in section 2106 of the Statutes, (KRS 402.210), which provides for issuance of marriage licenses by the clerk to persons under 21 years of age only upon personal or written consent of the parents or guardian. The consent in writing must be over the signature of the parent or guardian, attested by two subscribing witnesses, and proved by the oath of one of them, administered by the clerk.’ “As it affirmatively appears from the indictment that appellee was not an attesting witness, it is clear he was not a competent witness to prove the execution of the paper, and that the clerk had no authority, under this statute, to examine him under oath with reference thereto.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Whitaker v. Commonwealth