Kent v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Simms v. State (1980), State v. Lyles (1986)
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 Gardner v. Florida · Mempa v. Rhay · State v. Hicks · Commonwealth v. Martin · Hillard 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Allocution. ‘Before imposing sentence the court shall inform the defendant that he has the right, personally and through counsel, to make a statement and to present information in mitigation of punishment, and the court shall afford an opportunity to exercise this right.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. State · State v. Lyles““The history of Rule 772 d, which was previously numbered Rule 761 a, confirms that it was intended to be mandatory. An excellent discussion of the rule and the right to allocution generally, including the history of the right and cases in other jurisdictions, is contained in Judge Thompson’s opinion for the Court of Special Appeals in Brown v. State, 11 Md.App. 27 , 272 A.2d 659 , cert. denied, 261 Md. 722 (1971).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Jones v. State““Considering the language of the rule, its requirements are clearly mandatory. Brown v. State, 11 Md.App. 27 , 272 A.2d 659 , cert. denied, 261 Md. 722 (1971). See also In re James S., 286 Md. 702 , 410 A.2d 586 (1980); State v. Hicks, 285 Md. 310 , 403 A.2d 356 (1979); Johnson v. State, 282 Md. 314 , 384 A.2d 709 (1978).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones 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.