Kemp v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Sera v. State (2000), Short v. State (2002)
28 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 Gruzen v. State · Duncan v. State · Marion v. State · Harkness v. Harrison · Alexander 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Weighing the inflammatory nature of evidence against the probative value lies within the sound discretion of the trial court, and its actions will not be disturbed on appeal in the absence of a clear showing of abuse of that discretion. Kemp, at 839.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hubbard v. State“that the rape shield statute only excludes evidence of prior sexual conduct of the victim, and that appellant may testify at trial as to the actions of the prosecuting witness on the night of the alleged rape.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Herren 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.