Maggard v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1959
19 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 Patterson v. Commonwealth · Hudspeth v. Commonwealth · Gray v. Commonwealth · Lickliter v. Commonwealth · Patterson 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.
““The evidence in a criminal case will not be reviewed by this court to see if it justifies a conviction. Cornelius v. Commonwealth, 15 B. Mon. 539 ; Patterson v. Commonwealth, 86 Ky. 313 , 5 S. W. 765 , 9 Ky. Law Rep. 481 ; Blaylock v. Commonwealth, 239 Ky. 793 , 40 S. W. (2d) 382 . The de termination of the question of the guilt or innocence-of the accused was exclusively within the province of the jury and not this court. Johnson v. Commonwealth, 244 Ky. 608 , 51 S. W. (2d) 932 ; St. Clair v. Commonwealth, 245 Ky. 730 , 54 S. W. (2d) 1 ; Miller v. Commonwealth, 236 Ky. 448 , 33 S. W. (2d) 590 . * * * We are without righ to disturb it because it is against the preponderance of the evidence. Adkins v. Commonwealth, 245 Ky. 503 , 53 S. W. (2d) 949 .””
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.