Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 1996
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. L. &. N. R. R. · Smith v. Commonwealth · Gambill v. Commonwealth · Kentucky Utilities Co. v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Kenner
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.
“It is a general rule running through the law of evidence that where the negative of an issue does not permit of direct proof, or where the facts are more immediately within the knowledge of the defendant, the burden of proving that such averment is not true rests upon him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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