Campbell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2015
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Simpson v. United States · Wells v. Commonwealth · McDonald 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.
““It is true that the act of burglary is complete when the criminal enters unlawfully with the intent to commit a crime. However, the act of entering is essentially just a step towards committing the crime that occasioned the entry. Where the crime which was the purpose of the burglary is clearly identified by facts and circumstances, the single criminal intent should not be punished twice. It is only where the burglar commits an additional, gratuitous offense unnecessary to the crime which was the object of the burglary that the state should punish for both offenses.... The statute setting out the crime of ‘criminal attempt,’ KRS 506.010, presents yet another facet of this complication. In the present case, using the language of the statute, the burglary was ‘a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in commission of the crime.’ Under KRS 506.010(l)(b) such constituted a criminal attempt. KRS 506.110, multiple convictions, provides that the prosecution of an attempt to commit an offense bars prosecution for the offense. A burglary premised on an intent to steal is also an attempted theft, and conviction for both burglary and theft violates the principle in KRS 506.110.” Id. at 882-83 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent““The rules of the game, now honored only in the breach, require the prosecutor to carve out and convict for only the most serious offense represented by ‘the same criminal episode.’ American Law Institute, Model Penal Code, Multiple Offenses, § 1.07: ‘Arising out of the same criminal episode’ is meant to include offenses that occur on substantially the same occasion or are motivated by a common purpose or plan and are necessary or incidental to the accomplishment of that purpose or plan.’ Id. at 118-19.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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