Russell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * there must be both the detention against the will of the prosecutrix and the intention of the accused to have carnal knowledge of her, but it is not essential that there be physical force. What amounts to a detention under the statute was stated as follows in Jones v. Commonwealth, 121 Ky. 266 , 89 S.W. 174 , 176: ‘It is not necessary that the defendant should take physical hold of the woman in order to constitute a detention. If she is detained by him for the purpose of having carnal knowledge of her, he is guilty, although the detention is slight in point of time and no physical force is actually used.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Carmicle v. Commonwealth