Head v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 1976
15 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 Means v. Commonwealth · Crouch v. Commonwealth · Ringstaff v. Commonwealth · Johnson v. Commonwealth · Wilson 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An accomplice is one who knowingly, voluntarily, and with common intent, unites with the principal in the perpetration of the crime, either by being present and joining in the criminal act, by aiding and abetting in its commission, or, if not present, by advising and encouraging the performance of the act. Durham v. Commonwealth, Ky., 398 S.W.2d 696 ; Clark v. Commonwealth, Ky., 386 S.W. 2d 458 ; Head v. Commonwealth, Ky., 310 S.W.2d 285 .” Hammershoy v. Commonwealth, Ky., 408 S.W.2d 624 .”
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.