Denny v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1974
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 Turner v. Commonwealth · Garman v. Commonwealth · Davidson v. Commonwealth · Fuqua v. Commonwealth · Sebree 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The testimony of any witness taken by a stenographic reporter pursuant to KRS 28.430 may, in the discretion of the court in which it is taken, be used as evidence in any subsequent trial of the same issue between the same parties, where the testimony of such witness cannot be procured, but no testimony so taken shall be used in any criminal case without the consent of the defendant.” (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Bugg““The testimony of any witness or witnesses taken by said reporter in any court or division as aforesaid shall constitute a part of the record of the case, and may, in the discretion of the presiding judge, be used in any subsequent trial of the same case between the same parties, . . . : Provided, That in criminal cases such testimony shall be so used only upon the consent of the defendant.” 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Bugg
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.