Hamilton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘The third objection raised in appellant’s motion and grounds is the ruling of the court in the overruling and sustaining objection to evidence and in his admonition to the jury during the progress of the trial and upon this point we are asking the court to give this objection due consideration together with a reading of the record.’ “From our examination of this record, we have found 53 different rulings to which this may have been addressed. He surely does not expect us to extend this opinion to such length as to discuss all of these,' and in his brief he has pointed out none of them in particular. His brief merely amounts to an invitation to us to read this record and see if the court did not err in some of these particulars. We usually decline such invitations. See McCorkle v. Chapman, 181 Ky. 607 , 205 S.W. 682 . By subdivision 2 of rule 5 of this court, it is required that briefs shall refer to the page or pages where the matter complained of may be found, and when that is not done, there is perhaps no better way to induce attorneys to observe these rules than to disregard the matters not so pointed out.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Yocom v. Jackson