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State v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

53
cited by 53 later decisions
1
states following
December 2025
most recently cited

53 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. McCarthy (2004), State v. M. George (2020)

53 state decisions

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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 Illinois v. Allen · State v. Herrman · State v. LaMere · State v. Tapson · Sturgis v. Goldsmith

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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “of the trial or whether Price validly waived his right of presence. We will assume for the purposes of our analysis that the conferences constituted critical stages, and that Price did not validly waive his right to be present. ¶ 26 In Kennedy , we determined that the district court had violated the defendant's right to be present when it excluded him from a conference in which the court questioned and ultimately removed a juror. Kennedy , ¶ 27. We concluded that”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “has the legal right to be present when the jury are hearing his case, and at all times during the proceeding of the trial, when anything is done which in any manner affects his right.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[B]y his or her physical presence, a defendant can hear and see the proceedings, and can participate in the preservation of his or her rights.”
    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.