Little v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 1972
21 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 Chappell v. Commonwealth · Hunley v. Commonwealth · Herron v. Commonwealth · Barnard 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Though the' statute was differently construed in Chappell v. Commonwealth, 200 Ky. 429 , 255 S. W. 90 , we have recently (in Hannah v. Commonwealth, 242 Ky. 220 , 46 S. W. (2d) 121 ) overruled that case, and returned to the former rule that the statute does not contain two offenses, but prescribes only one offense, which may be committed in two different ways, and that under the first provision the crime consists in the commission of an unlawful and malicious assault with an offensive weapon or instrument, with the felonious intent to rob the person assaulted, while under the second provision the gravamen of the offense is the act of demanding money or property in a forceable and violent manner with the intent to rob. Taylor v. Commonwealth, 3 Bnsh 508.” (Parenthesis ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reed v. Commonwealth
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.