Alder v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1973
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 Howard v. Commonwealth · Frain v. Applegate, Judge · Hogan v. Commonwealth · Burdette v. Commonwealth · Cosby 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.
““In cases of theft of money if the Commonwealth should be required to prove that money found on an accused is the identical bills claimed to have been stolen, only on rare occasions could a conviction be had. In some instances bills may be marked or bear other peculiar evidence of identity, but such -is a rare exception.” Alder v. Commonwealth, 277 Ky. 136 , 125 S.W.2d 986, 990 .”
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.