Billings v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. English (1999), Stringer v. Commonwealth (1997)
35 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 Pendleton v. Commonwealth · Luttrell v. Commonwealth · O'Bryan v. Commonwealth · Lantrip v. Commonwealth · Anastasi 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“including motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident. However,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Against the hoary proposition that we welcome any evidence tending to make a material fact, i.e., an element of the offense, appear more likely or less likely than it would appear absent that evidence, is counterpoised the equally venerable rule that a defendant may not be convicted on the basis of low character or criminal predisposition, even though such character or predisposition makes it appear more likely that the defendant is guilty of the charged offense. The upshot is that evidence of criminal conduct other than that being tried is admissible only if probative of an issue independent of character or criminal predisposition, [i.e., KRE 404] and only if its probative value on that issue outweighs the unfair prejudice with respect to character [i.e., KRE 403],”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In every case in which evidence of other crimes is sought to be introduced to establish a pattern or scheme, the real question is whether the method of the commission of the other crime or crimes is so similar and so unique as to indicate a reasonable probability that the crimes were committed by the same person.”
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.