Fore v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
March 2005
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stacey v. Commonwealth · Thomas v. Commonwealth · Hendrickson v. Commonwealth · Engle v. Commonwealth · Hamilton v. Howard
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The right to act in defense to one’s home is confined to cases of attempted forcible entry for the purpose of committing a felony or of inflicting great bodily harm or offering personal violence to a person dwelling or being therein, and to cases of attack or attempted attack on the home with firearms for any one of such purposes.” ’ (quoting Hamilton v. Howard, 234 Ky. 321 , 28 S.W.2d 7, 10 (1930)); Fore v. Commonwealth, 291 Ky. 34 , 163 S.W.2d 48, 50 (Ky.1942) (”
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.