Commonwealth v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Hoskins v. Maricle (2004), Hyatt v. Commonwealth (2002)
27 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 Gateway Construction Company v. Wallbaum · Kentucky Ass'n of Chiropractors v. Jefferson County Medical Society · Flying J Travel Plaza v. Commonwealth, Transportation Cabinet, Department of Highways · Layne v. Newberg · Commonwealth v. Hicks
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To determine legislative intent, a court must refer to “the words used in enacting the statute rather than surmising what may have been intended but was not expressed.” ... Similarly, a court “may not interpret a statute at variance with its stated language.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here a statute is intelligible on its face, the courts are not at liberty to supply words or insert something or make additions which amount, as sometimes stated, to providing for a casus omissus, or cure an omission.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a court may not interpret a statute at variance with its stated language”
2 later decisions 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.