Lassiter v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2001
14 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 Irvine v. Greenway · Jones v. Commonwealth · Elkins v. Commonwealth · Hensley v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Jenkins
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that newly discovered evidence of such character is not sufficient to authorize the granting of a new trial unless it impeaches the only material witness in the case. Bates v. Commonwealth, 226 Ky. 318 , 10 S. W. (2d) 1099 ; Jones v. Commonwealth, 238 Ky. 453 , 38 S. W. (2d) 251 . Where newly discovered evidence that is only impeaching in its nature affects the evidence of the sole witness upon whose testimony the conviction was necessarily had or when the newly dscovered evidence is of such a nature that unexplained it probably would have induced the jury to reach a different conclusion, a new trial will be granted. Hensley v. Commonwealth, 241 Ky. 367 , 43 S. W. (2d) 996 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * It informed the appellant of the nature of the crime, and that he was the one accused of its commission. He could not have been misled by the failure^ to restate his surname in the accusatory and descriptive parts of the indictment.””
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.