Mayfield v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * But if the jury believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant Albert Clayton Hobbs and the deceased William Thomas Kelly voluntarily engaged in mutual combat with the intention on the part of each to kill the other or to do him great bodily harm, or if you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant Albert Clayton Hobbs, when he was in no danger real or to him apparent, of death or great bodily harm at the hands of William Thomas Kelly or Bill Sloane acting in concert with William Thomas Kelly, began the difficulty by assaulting William Thomas Kelly with a knife and that the defendant thereby brought on any such danger to himself, then in either event the defendant cannot be acquitted on the grounds of self defense.” (Emphasis added)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hobbs v. Commonwealth