Kennedy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently December 1993 · most notably 425 So. 2d 500 - Gwin v. State (1982), 425 So. 2d 510 - Ex Parte Gwin (1983)
84 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 Gautney v. State · Kabase v. State · Butler v. State · Kemp v. State · Morgan County v. Hill
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The court charges the Jury that, if the evidence convinces you that Dixon is a man of bad character, and unworthy of belief, then you may disregard his evidence altogether.'" (Dixon was a witness for the State.)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is well established that under Rule 45 an appellant must not only show error but must also demonstrate that such error was probably injurious. State v. Hodge , 280 Ala. 422 , 194 So.2d 827 ; Kabase v. State , 244 Ala. 182 , 12 So.2d 766 . . ."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"No judgment may be reversed or set aside, nor new trial granted in any civil or criminal case on the ground of misdirection of the jury, the giving or refusal of special charges or the improper admission or rejection of evidence, nor for error as to any matter of pleading or procedure, unless in the opinion of the court to which the appeal is taken or application is made, after an examination of the entire cause, it should appear that the error complained of has probably injuriously affected substantial rights of the parties."”
3 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.