Davenport v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 2000 · most notably Gabow v. Commonwealth (2000), Jackson v. Commonwealth (1946)
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 Youman v. Commonwealth · Meade v. Commonwealth · Shell v. Commonwealth · Frasure v. Commonwealth · O'Brien 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * where the evidence is entirely circumstantial and only establishes the corpus delicti, and other circumstances from which defendant’s connection with the crime might be inferred, the court should instruct on all phases of homicide; but where defendant testifies to facts showing how the killing occurred and where there is no room for any possible theory except he is guilty of murder or he is innocent, there is no reason for the court to give the manslaughter and self-defense instructions.” Id. 148 S.W.2d at 1060 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““No case is cited to us and we have found none-wherein this court has approved instructions covering all the degrees of homicide where defendant testified and the facts showed he was guilty of the crime of murder or else he had not committed the crime.”'”
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.