Kirkpatrick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2018
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Jones v. State · Lockett v. State · Winfrey v. State · Davis v. State · Dean v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here but one offense is charged but the several modes provided by the statute by which it may be committed are charged in the disjunctive, the indictment is good. The reason is that the charge is based upon one offense, and the different modes of committing it provided in the statute are based upon the same transaction. . . . In other words, the State in proving the offense might show that it was done [by either or both of the several modes charged] .... In either event it related to the same transaction and constituted but one offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nance v. State
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.