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← 841 SW2D 628 - Commonwealth v. Nelson

Commonwealth v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
August 2009
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Smith v. Commonwealth · Epsilon Trading Co. v. Revenue Cabinet · Robertson v. Commonwealth · State v. Gresham · May 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “This Court has stated that [w]e are of the opinion that where the error is preserved and there is a substantial deviation in the jury selection from the rule and the statute a reversal is required. Robertson v. Commonwealth, Ky., 597 S.W.2d 864, 865 (1980). We have determined that, if such an error is preserved for review, the delegation of the chief judge’s authority to disqualify, postpone and excuse jurors was violative of KRS 29A.080, KRS 29A.110 and Ad.Proc. section 8 and section 12.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “A motion raising an irregularity in the selection or summons of the jurors or formation of the jury must precede the examination of the jurors.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.