Kitchen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Yat v. State · Stahl 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This meaning of malice murder is consistent with the general rule that crimes which are defined so as to require that the defendant intentionally cause a forbidden bad result are usually interpreted to cover one who knows that his conduct is substantially certain to cause the result, whether or not he desires the result to occur.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bozzie v. State“where no considerable provocation appears and where all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blount 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.