Ball v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1971
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 McCandless v. Commonwealth · Hayes v. Commonwealth · Breeden v. Commonwealth · Williams v. Commonwealth · Hatfield 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.
““Other unlawful receipts of property in the manner described in the statute are admissible on the trial of such a charge, in order to show knowledge and intent, as well as a general course of dealing on the part of the defendant; but such proof can not be received for the purpose of increasing the value of the property received, to the combined valuation of the amount of each separate and distinct receipt. See Washington v. Commonwealth, 10 Ky. Op. 170 . When such evidence is admitted for the purpose of proving intent, etc., as above pointed out, it becomes the duty of the court to admonish the jury the purpose for which all other proven receipts were admitted.” Emphasis added.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The jury shall be instructed that if there is a reasonable doubt of the defendant’s being proved to be guilty, he is entitled to an acquittal and that if there be a reasonable doubt of the degree of the offense which the defendant has committed, he shall be convicted only of the lower degree.””
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.