Hudson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2000
1 district · 19 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 23 Cal. 3d 103 - People v. Teron · State v. Lindquist · Meadows v. Commonwealth · 370 So. 2d 533 - State v. Collins · State v. Rodgers
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““KRS 446.080(3) clearly and unequivocally states: ‘No statute shall be construed to be retroactive, unless expressly so declared.’ Nothing in the act of the legislature redefining the crime of murder and adopting the stan dards by which capital punishment may be considered and may be imposed even hints at retroactive application, much less expressly declares other than prospective application. 1976 Ky.Acts, Ch. 15, Secs. 1-4 (ex.sess.) The legislature has proclaimed that it will expressly indicate those instances in which an act is retrospective in nature. It has not done so here. Therefore, statutorily, the death penalty may only be imposed in those cases in which the crime was committed after the effective date of the revised death penalty statute. Not only is this result required by the statutory rule of construction, it is in accord with the common law of this Commonwealth, unchanged for over a hundred years. Watts v. Commonwealth, 78 Ky. (1 J. Rodman) 320 (1880); see Long v. City of Louisville, 97 Ky. 364 , 30 S.W. 987 (1895); O’Donoghue v. Akin, 63 Ky. (2 Duv.) 478 (1866).””
2 later decisions 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.