State v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably State v. Cohen (1985), State v. Jenkins (2010)
43 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.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the proper test for voluntariness is to examine the totality of the facts and circumstances to see whether the consent was given by defendant's free will or was the result of coercion, express or implied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rodriguez“the burden on the police to show voluntariness when consent occurs after illegal police conduct is greater than when no illegality has occurred”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rodriguez“a peace officer may approach a citizen, identify himself as an officer and ask some preliminary questions without making a `stop.'”
1 later decision 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.