Privett v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1959
12 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 Deaton and Boggs v. Commonwealth · Shields v. Commonwealth · Clines v. Commonwealth · Gregory v. Commonwealth · Middleton 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The indictment now under consideration accuses defendant with the common-law offense of arson, which is the willful, felonious, and unlawful burning of a dwelling house, while the descriptive part of the indictment charges him and his codefendants with having committed the statutory offense of burning, in the same manner, a storehouse The Deaton Case [ 220 Ky. 343 , 295 S. W. 167 ], which dealt with the same defect now under consideration and which was therein held to be fatal to the indictment, has been followed and approved in the later cases of Middleton v. Commonwealth, 226 Ky. 220 , 10 S. W. (2d) 812 , and Gregory v. Commonwealth, 226 Ky. 617 , 11 S W (2d) 432 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.