Benge v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1960
7 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 Anderson v. Commonwealth · Lockard v. Commonwealth · Sayler v. Commonwealth · Helton v. Commonwealth · Buster 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have reiterated the law too often to require again its insertion in this opinion, to the effect that one cannot be convicted of a criminal charge upon mere surmise and suspicion, and that when the evidence produces no more than that it is the duty of the court to direct an acquittal. See Sayler v. Commonwealth, 264 Ky. 53 , 94 S.W.2d 281; Smith v. Commonwealth, 260 Ky. 52, 53 , 83 S.W.2d 883 ; Helton v. Commonwealth, 254 Ky. 290 , 71 S.W.2d 625 ; Little v. Commonwealth, 245 Ky. 837 , 54 S.W.2d 388 ; Buster v. Commonwealth, 246 Ky. 322 , 55 S.W.2d 18 ; Haynes v. Commonwealth, 225 Ky. 234 , 8 S.W.2d 403 ; Lockard v. Commonwealth, 193 Ky. 619 , 237 S.W. 26 ; Anderson v. Commonwealth, 196 Ky. 30 , 244 S.W. 315 .””
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.