Buchanan v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2013
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 Kent v. United States · Kilgore v. Commonwealth · Hubbs v. Commonwealth · Hamilton v. Commonwealth · Holt 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.
“[w]e do not agree that ... a juvenile, having become an adult, could not effectively reconstruct the circumstances which existed at the time of the waiver hearing ... In light of the age of majority which prevails in this Commonwealth and the ordinary time span of the appellate process, it is likely that a Kentucky juvenile who had been transferred to circuit court would be younger than 21 when his case was remanded.”
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.