Nix v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1997
5 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 L. & N. R. R. Co. v. Payne · Cheatham v. Chabal · Merryman v. Parker · Durbin v. Banks · Blackburn 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The argument is made also that on cross-examination, Mable Nix admitted she was unable to hear anything that was said concerning plans for the theft. If this had been all that was said by Mable, we would be inclined to agree that the evidence was insufficient to connect the appellants with the crime. On direct examination, however, Mable testified that she heard the details of the planned theft. This conflict clearly affects her credibility as a witness, but it is the jury’s province to determine the weight to be given her conflicting testimony. It may believe what was said on direct examination despite subsequent inconsistent statements.” Durbin v. Banks, 314 Ky. 192 , 234 S.W.2d 681 . (Emphasis ours.)”
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.