Parrish v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1994
5 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 Doyle v. Ohio · Hunt v. Commonwealth · McGill v. Commonwealth · Green v. Commonwealth · Amos 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Parrish testified that he was aware of the deceased’s reputation for being a person of violent character. He then attempted to testify as to specific incidents of violence. The trial court declined to admit this testimony and Parrish argues error. “The rule in this jurisdiction is that once the defendant has adduced some evidence that he acted in self-defense, ‘Proof of the violent and dangerous character of deceased can only be made by evidence of his general reputation in the community for such character, and not by evidence of specific acts or general bad conduct, or of isolated facts, which are not connected with the homicide.’ Robertson’s New Criminal Law and Procedure, Second Edition, § 489, p. 657. See also Amos v. Commonwealth, Ky., 516 S.W.2d 836 (1974), and McGill v. Commonwealth, Ky., 365 S.W.2d 470 (1963).”
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.