Commonwealth v. Mullins’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2001
12 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 Jones v. Commonwealth · Cornett v. Commonwealth · City of Vanceburg v. Plummer · Hunt 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Involuntary manslaughter is the killing of another in doing some unlawful act not amounting to a felony and not likely to endanger human life and without intention to kill, or the killing of another while doing a lawful act in an unlawful or negligent manner where the negligence is not such as to indicate a disregard for human life. Hunt v. Commonwealth, 289 Ky. 527 , 159 S. W. 2d 23 . ‘One who drives an automobile on the highway in such a manner as to violate the law of the road, or negligently and carelessly drives same so as to endanger the life or limbs or property of another on the highway, and in so doing strikes and kills another, is guilty of involuntary manslaughter.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lowe v. Commonwealth
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.