Hopper v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1992
7 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 Anderson v. Commonwealth · Kelley v. Commonwealth · Neal v. Commonwealth · Robinson 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The case of Kelley v. Commonwealth, 300 Ky. 136 , 187 S.W.2d 796 (1945), indicates that perhaps a requested instruction to the effect that a defendant’s failure to testify does not create any presumption against him should be given if there has been some reference to the matter, but we need not decide the question here because appellant made no such request. It is our view that such an instruction would do more harm than good, and unless the defendant himself insisted upon it we are inclined to believe it would be a prejudicial error.” We now bolster and reaffirm Hopper.”
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.