Hamm v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1993
9 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 Davis v. Commonwealth · Jacobs v. Commonwealth · Lowery v. Commonwealth · Johnson v. Commonwealth · Cannon 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Without stating further details of the evidence it is sufficient to say that it was conflicting. Had the jury seen fit to believe appellant and his witnesses, he was entitled to an acquittal. However, we have evidence of the witness Wash, who testified positively that he saw appellant get out of the wrecked car and saw no one else in or about the car. “It is seen that there is proof that appellant was in possession of the stolen automobile. This court has repeatedly held that a conviction will be sustained upon proof that a person charged with larceny was found in possession of the stolen property. Davis v. Commonwealth, 191 Ky. 242, 243 , 229 S.W. 1029 ; Jacobs v. Commonwealth, 260 Ky. 142 , 84 S.W.2d 1, 2 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.