Rice v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2013
4 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 Davenport v. Commonwealth · Lee v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Mosser · Canada 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The offense of voluntary manslaughter is ‘the unlawful, willful, and felonious killing, without previous malice, of another, in a sudden affray or in sudden heat and passion, not in the necessary or apparently necessary self-defense of the slayer.’ Commonwealth v. Mosser, 133 Ky. 609 , 118 S.W. 915 . See Roberson’s New Kentucky Criminal Law and Procedure, 2d Edition, Section 372, page 495.””
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.