Vinson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2018
10 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 Commonwealth v. Barney · Gibson v. Commonwealth · Grigsby v. Commonwealth · Wallace v. Commonwealth · Morgan 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * ⅜ * It may be said that when the defendant proves facts or circumstances to excuse his acts which otherwise would be a crime, or when the specific issue is one of criminal intent, ordinarily an affirmative instruction should be given. * * ⅝ ” Vinson v. Commonwealth, Ky. App., 248 S.W.2d 430, 433 (1952).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stapleman v. State
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.