McKinney v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “normal,” and lacking any emotional response [upon learning that his wife and stepchildren had been killed] certainly lend themselves to an inference that Appellant was guilty.” And, of course, a suspect’s flight to elude capture or prevent discovery is admissible because”

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

2. “it is unnecessary to establish a perfect chain of custody or to eliminate all possibility of tampering or misidentification, so long as there is persuasive evidence that 'the reasonable probability is that the evidence has not been altered in any material respect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. White v. Com. of Ky.