Lovelace v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Anderson v. Alexander (1951), McIntosh v. Commonwealth (1963)
3 federal appellate · 50 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 Stevens v. Commonwealth · Dial v. Commonwealth · Brabandt v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Polsgrove, County Judge · Huggins v. Caldwell, Judge
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * '* Probation relates to action taken before the prison door is closed — before final conviction, while parole relates to action taken after the door has been closed. A parole partakes of the nature of a pardon, for it suspends the execution of a penalty already imposed. * * *””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Laws to be suspended only by General Assembly. No power to suspend laws shall be exercised unless by the General Assembly or its authority.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The legislature makes the laws that declare what are criminal offenses and define the processes by which these laws are enforced. Having the power to make, it has the power to modify and provide for abatement or suspension. Id. at 1034. “[T]the power in the legislature to authorize the courts to suspend those laws is in the logically implied affirmation contained in Section 15 of the Constitution of Kentucky....” Id. (emphasis added).”
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.