Woods v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2014
8 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Marshall v. Lonberger · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Utility Contractors, Inc. v. United States · Vazquez v. Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Penal statutes are not to be extended by construction, but must be limited to cases clearly within the language used." Woods v. Commonwealth, Ky., 793 S.W.2d 809, 814 (1990).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“doubts about the meaning of a penal statute should be resolved[] `in favor of lenity'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“and against a construction that would produce”
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.