Cassell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2001
23 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 State v. Hyde · Levering v. Commonwealth · Mansfield v. Commonwealth · Hall v. Commonwealth · Smith 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Looking to our cases for precedents and authority, we have many holding that circumstantial evidence alone, if within the rule excluding every other hypothesis, is enough to support a verdict of guilty of the most atrocious crime. Smith v. Commonwealth, 140 Ky. 599 , 131 S. W. 499 ; Dorsey v. Commonwealth, 158 Ky. 447 , 165 S. W. 405 ; Taylor v. Commonwealth, 182 Ky. 728 , 207 S. W. 456 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sams 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.