Presnell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Presnell v. Georgia (1978), Drake v. Kemp (1985)
17 federal appellate · 50 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Wade · Schmerber v. State of California · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only evidence of bodily injury to support the crime of kidnapping with bodily injury ... is the bodily injury which resulted from the rape. . . . Thus, the convictions for both kidnapping with bodily injury and forcible rape cannot be upheld.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The state's attempted reliance upon sodomy as constituting the bodily injury associated with the kidnapping of the older child is not ground for retrial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Presnell v. Georgia“the written words of a since deceased jurist”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Potts v. Zant
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.