Young v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We will first address ourselves to the defendant’s complaint that the court should have incorporated in its instructions given the jury upon the housebreaking charge also an instruction on petit larceny, as being a lesser degree of the housebreaking offense charge. We deem this objection to be without merit, for the reason that the offense of larceny is not embraced or included as a lesser degree, or any degree, of the offense of housebreaking, as provided in section 1164 of the Kentucky Statutes, upon which the indictment under which defendant was here tried was based.” (KS 1164 is now KRS 433.190).”

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

2. ““ * * * it is sufficient to say that this court has repeatedly held that while a conviction may be had upon circumstantial evidence alone, when it is of such force as to reasonably exclude every reasonable hypothesis of the defendant’s innocence, such rule is yet subject to the qualification that if the evidence be as consistent with the defendant’s innocence as with his guilt, it is insufficient to support a conviction. (Citations omitted.)” Id. 53 S.W.2d at page 208 .”

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