Rounds v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2018
23 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 80 Cal. App. 647 - In Re Application of O'Connor · Childers v. Commonwealth · Sebree v. Commonwealth · People v. McGregar · Wilkey 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * From time immemorial it has been customary in this jurisdiction for the instructions to hypothecate guilt upon the belief by the jury from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused committed the offense charged in the indictment, in the named county, yet it has been repeatedly declared that it takes only slight evidence, either direct or circumstantial, to sustain the venue, since that does not affect the issue of guilt or innocence. Sebree v. Commonwealth, 200 Ky. 534 , 255 S.W. 142 ; Ford v. Commonwealth, 259 Ky. 492 , 82 S.W.2d 785 .” (Emphasis added.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Bills of Rights of the Constitution of Kentucky (Section 11), and of the Federal Constitution (Sixth Amendment) declare that a person convicted of a crime shall be tried by a jury of the district or vicinage wherein the crime was committed, except as provision for a change of venue may be made. Section 1145, Kentucky Statutes, declares that all offenses shall be tried in the courts of the county in which they were committed, except in cases otherwise provided for. Section 18 of the Criminal Code of Practice prescribes the local jurisdiction of circuit courts “shall be of offenses committed within the respective counties in which they are held.””
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.