Bentley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the cases of Abraham v. Commonwealth, 202 Ky. 491 , 260 S.W. 18, 19 ; Griffith v. Comonwealth, 209 Ky. 143 , 272 S.W. 403 , and Coleman v. Commonwealth, 219 Ky. 139 , 292 S.W. 771, 772 , we had before us affidavits, in support of the issuance of search warrants, which contained statements to produce probable cause for the issuing of the warrant in all essential respects the same as the above excerpt from the affidavit in this case for the same purpose. In each of those cases we held that, regardless of the sufficiency of the substance of the statements, none of them fixed or stated any time when the alleged facts happened, and that, since it was necessary for that to be done in order to show whether such conditions were true and coexistent with the time of the issuing of the warrant, they furnished no authority to the issuing officer for believing that the facts attempted to be stated in the affidavit were then true and, consequently, no authority for him to issue the warrant, and which conclusion to our minds is inescapable.””

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