Commonwealth v. Kendrick’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Mahnke (1975), Commonwealth v. Harrington (1980)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 96 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Commonwealth v. Hartford · Commonwealth v. Baker · Commonwealth v. Gricus · Commonwealth v. Houston
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In passing upon the reasonableness of the force used by the defendant, ... the jury should consider evidence of the relative physical capabilities of the combatants, the characteristics of the weapons used, and the availability of maneuver room in, or means of escape from, the . . . area.””
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.