Alford v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1959
10 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 McCreary v. Commonwealth · McCreary v. Commonwealth · Richardson v. Commonwealth · Kirby v. Commonwealth · Bullington 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court permitted the commonwealth, however, to introduce evidence tending to show that appellant had sold liquor to the prosecuting witness on other days than January 13, 1927. This was error. It is insisted for the commonwealth that this evidence was admissible under one of the exceptions to the general rule that, when one is being tried for a crime, evidence of other crimes is inadmissible. The exceptions to the general rule disallowing such testimony are where proof of other crimes is necessary to show (1) the identity of the accused as the person who committed the crime proved; (2) guilty knowledge; (.31) particular criminal intent; (4) malice or motive; (5) that the crime of which he is accused, and for which he is being tried, is a part of a plan or system of criminal actions. The facts of this case bring it within none of these exceptions. Proof of the other sales was unnecessary to identify the accused or to show guilty knowledge in her or particular criminal intent or malice or motive, and it certainly did not tend to show that she had any peculiar plan or system of selling whisky. Kirby v. v. Commonwealth 206 Ky. 535 , 267 S. W. 1094 ; Eagle v. Commonwealth, 223 Ky. 178 , 3 S. W. (2d) 212 .””
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.