Kinnamon v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
40 F.3d 731 · 1994
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably United States v. Flores (1995), 167 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Franklin (1995)
10 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Teague v. Lane · McCleskey v. Zant · Simmons v. South Carolina · McFarland v. Scott
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Petitioner] next asserts constitutional error in his inability to argue to the jury in sentencing that if spared the death penalty [petitioner] would be required to serve a minimum of 20 calendar years without good time before becoming eligible for parole. [Petitioner] rests this claim on Simmons.... If we were to ignore the absence of a contemporaneous objection and the bar of Teague ..., we would not extend Simmons beyond cases in which the sentencing alternative to death is life without parole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Montoya v. Scott
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.