Greenwell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2006
9 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 Mansfield v. Commonwealth · Alford v. Commonwealth · United States v. American Tobacco Co. · Commonwealth v. Lacey · Pritchett v. Frisby
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““From earliest times it has been the policy of the law in furtherance of justice to shield the proceedings of grand juries from public scrutiny. Secrecy is for the protection of the witnesses and the good names of innocent persons investigated but not indicted and is to inspire the grand jurors with a confidence of secrecy in the discharge of their duties. It is not for the benefit or protection of any right of any person indicted unless such right is given by a statute. 38 C.J.S. Grand Juries § 43 and notes; 24 Am.Jur., Grand Jury, § 47. Cf. Pritchett v. Frisby, 112 Ky. 629 , 66 S.W. 503 ; Alford v. Commonwealth, 240 Ky. 513 , 42 S.W.2d 711 . Our statutes prescribe that only the officers as above stated may be present during the examination of a witness, and all of these nonmembers are excluded while the grand jury is deliberating or voting. If an outsider was present when the jury acted on an indictment, it is a ground for setting aside the indictment. §§ 110, 158(2), Criminal Code.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No person other than the grand jurors shall be present while the grand jury is deliberating or voting. Any person violating this Rule may be held in contempt of court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] grand jury is a part of the court, and under judicial control, so there can be no doubt that a session of the grand jury is a proceeding in a circuit court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoskins v. Maricle
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.