Kemp v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently October 1983 · most notably 392 So. 2d 1280 - Sanders v. State (1980), State v. Porth (1967)
72 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 Duncan v. State · Daniels v. State · Cooley v. State · Gosa v. State · Strickland 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even if it be conceded that the questions were improper, the court’s action in overruling the objections to them would not work a reversal, since the rule is that improper questions not answered are harmless. Strickland v. State, 269 Ala. 573 , 114 So.2d 407 ; Gosa v. State, 273 Ala. 346 , 139 So.2d 321 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.