Bills v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2019
1 federal appellate · 15 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 Chapman v. State of California · Cupp v. Naughten · Henderson v. Kibbe · Greer v. Miller · Commonwealth v. Benham
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Certainly a proper test to determine if the part of the body is "intimate" should revolve around an examination of three factors: 1) What area of the body is touched; 2) What is the manner of the touching, and 3) Under what circumstances did the touching occur.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The removal of the victim’s clothing was unnecessary in regard to the sex act involving oral sodomy. The two acts did not merge even though they may have occurred close in time. The contact was not incidental but rather related to sexual gratification.”); Van Dyke v. Commonwealth, 581 S.W.2d 563, 564 (Ky.1979) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person done for the purpose of gratifying the sexual desire of either party.”
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.