McCarty v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
May 1999
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Hourigan · Harris v. Commonwealth · Estepp v. Commonwealth · Allen v. Commonwealth · Hawley 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If an accused by acts or words brings on a difficulty with the intent to kill or to injure seriously his adversary, on the immediate occasion of the killing, he may be deprived of his right to rely •upon self-defense. Johnson v. Com., 94 Ky. 578 , 23 S. W. 507 , 15 Ky. Law Rep. 281 ; Hall v. Com., 207 Ky. 794 , 270 S. W. 35 ; Com. v. Ashcraft, 224 Ky. 203 , 5 S. W. (2d) 1067 .””
2 later decisions 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.