Kennedy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1977 · most notably Tollett v. Henderson (1973), Monts v. State (1964)
5 federal appellate · 36 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 Norris v. State of Alabama · Akins v. Texas · 11 Smith & H. 530 - Woodruff v. State · Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Pryor · Mays 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The insistence is also made that the trial court erred in allowing one of the highway patrolmen to testify that when the shots were fired from this building, others were struck besides Austin, upon whom the indictment alleged the assault to have been made. We think this was a part of the res gestae and therefore admissible. Mays v. State, 145 Tenn. 118 , 238 S.W. 1096 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The next insistence is that the trial court erred in unduly restricting counsel for the defendant in their examination of prospective jurors. The trial judge has a wide discretion in these matters, and his action will not be disturbed unless there has been an abuse of this discretion. No such abuse of discretion appears here. Foute v. State, 83 Tenn. 712 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It should be borne in mind that members of the Negro race have no constitutional right to trial by a mixed racial jury. All that they have is a right that their race shall not be discriminated against in the selection and drawing of grand juries.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McKinnie 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.