Miracle v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1952
8 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 Moore v. Commonwealth · Sprouse v. Commonwealth · Partin v. Commonwealth · Watkins v. Commonwealth · Brown 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If every fact which the testimony tended to prove be admitted, and the explanation offered by defendant be disregarded, it would not compel the belief or support the conclusion that appellant was guilty of the crime of which he was accused. It is the province of the jury to weigh the evidence and reconcile conflicting testimony, but when the facts proven do not tend, to incriminate, or to establish the connection of the accused with the offense charged, the evidence is not sufficient to sustain a conviction. Wilkerson v. Commonwealth, 76 S. W. 359 , 25 Ky. Law Rep. 782 ; Sprouse v. Commonwealth, 132 Ky. 283 , 116 S. W. 344 ; Daniel v. Commonwealth, 170 Ky. 698 , 186 S. W. 489 . “Since the amendment of 1910 to section 281 of the Criminal Code, this court is authorized to grant a new trial, when the verdict of the jury is palpably against the evidence and can be accounted for only on the ground of passion or prejudice on the part of the jury against the accused. Brown v. Commonwealth, 226 Ky. 255 , 10 S. W. (2d) 820 ; Watkins v. Commonwealth, 227 Ky. 100 , 12 S. W. (2d) 329 ; Forgy v. Commonwealth, 219 Ky. 177 , 292 S. W. 799 ; Partin v. Commonwealth, 197 Ky. 840 , 248 S. W. 489 .” Also, see, section 271, subsection 5 and section 340, Criminal Code of Practice.”
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.