Barnard v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1942
18 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here the crime of assaulting with intent to rob cannot be made out without establishing an assault, or assault and battery, with such intent; and, if the assault is committed without the additional circumstance of an intention to rob, then the assault is but a mere misdemeanor. But the intent to rob, and a conviction for it, absorb the misdemeanor into the higher crime of felony; so, likewise, the higher crime of murder absorbs the offense of the mere assault and battery. But if the murder be not established the party may be punished for the assault and battery * * Murphy v. Com., 255 Ky. 676 , 75 S. W. (2d) 341 .”
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.