State v. Kenna’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably State v. Jalette (1978), State v. Shannon (1984)
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 Dustin v. Curtis · State v. Grierson · 40 Cal. 2d 160 - People v. Costa · 64 Wis. 2d 24 - Phifer v. State · State v. Sturtevant
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.
““[T]he circumstances under which the utterance was made afford a guarantee of truth in substitution for that provided by oath and cross-examination. To provide this substitute guarantee it must appear to the satisfaction of the presiding justice that the utterance was a spontaneous verbal reaction to some startling or shocking event, made at a time when the speaker was still in a state of nervous excitement produced by that event, and before he had time to contrive or misrepresent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Woods
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.