Kennedy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Ex Parte Kennedy (1985), 479 So. 2d 76 - Ex Parte Grayson (1985)
1 federal appellate · 59 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Lockett v. Ohio · Cupp v. Naughten · Beck v. Alabama · Enmund v. Florida
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'To affirm a finding of a "particularized intent to kill,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The entire charge must be construed as a whole. Harris v. State, 412 So.2d 1278, 1281 (Ala.Crim.App.1982). When reviewing a judge's oral charge, `each statement made by a judge to the jury should be examined in light of the entire charge and ... isolated statements which appear prejudicial when taken out of context may be innocuous when viewed in light of the entire trial.' United States v. McCoy, 539 F.2d 1050, 1063 (5th Cir. 1976), cert. denied, 431 U.S. 919 , 97 S.Ct. 2185 , 53 L.Ed.2d 230 (1977)."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“' "[t]he language of a charge must be given a reasonable construction, and not a strained and unreasonable one.”
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.