Carter v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1972
17 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 Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Chambers · Globe Indemnity Company v. Daviess · Louisville Water Co. v. Lally · Harris v. Commonwealth · Branham 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it may not be said that the prosecuting witness’ recital as to how the alleged crime occurred is inherently impossible and totally at variance with natural laws, the evidence as to the attending circumstances and her subsequent conduct is such as to render it inherently improbable and to rob it of any probative value or fitness to carry conviction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * it is the province of the court to determine whether there is any evidence to support a case or any particular theory of a case, and in so doing to reject any alleged statement of facts inherently impossible and wholly at variance with universally recognized laws. * * * ””
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.