Mullett v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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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 last ground relates to erroneous instructions, and, under this heading, two criticisms are made. First, it is urged that the court erred in submitting a conspiracy instruction. Conceding arguendo that there was no evidence of a conspiracy, we yet find that the appellants were not convicted under the conspiracy instruction but under the instruction which simply submitted the question whether they were aiders and abettors of John R. Mullett in the murder of Stevens. Hence the giving of the conspiracy instruction was not prejudicial to any substantial rights of the appellants. Claxton v. Commonwealth, 221 Ky. 207 , 298 S. W. 702 ; Howard v. Commonwealth, 230 Ky. 738 , 20 S. W. (2d) 748 .” See, also, Wicker v. Commonwealth, 237 Ky. 119 , 34 S. W. (2d) 964 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fox v. Commonwealth