Owsley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2001
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 California v. Green · Douglas v. Alabama · Price v. Georgia · Jett v. Commonwealth · Tarkaney 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.
“Appellant contends that it was erroneous to permit police sergeant Edward J. Kirk to relate to the jury a conversation he had had with Mrs. Josephine Owsley concerning what she knew about the case. When this case is tried again, if Mrs. Owsley testifies and is available for cross-examination and a proper foundation is laid, then the prior inconsistent statements of Mrs. Owsley to Sergeant Kirk would be admissible as substantive evidence under Jett v. Commonwealth, Ky., 436 S.W.2d 788 . If, however, Mrs. Ows-ley does not testify, whether this occurs as a result of her claim of privilege to remain silent or otherwise, the testimony of Sergeant Kirk as to such statements would be inadmissible because of the lack of opportunity for cross-examination and because of the lack of a proper foundation. . (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.