Kennedy v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It has repeatedly been held that before this Court can reverse a conviction upon the ground that the trial court erred in the admission or rejection of evidence, or its instructions to the jury, it must first find from an inspection of the entire record that appellant was injured thereby, and to determine the question of appellant’s guilt or innocence of the offense charged. . . .” [Citations omitted]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rouse v. State

2. ““. . . We find, in reviewing the record, that the response was not elicited by the State as an ‘evidentiary harpoon’ as contended by the defense, but rather was an answer to a question designed to establish that no prosecutive arrangements had been entered into by the parties.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rouse v. State

3. “[c]onsidering that the objection to the conclusionary responses to the witness was sustained, and in view of the fact that no Motion for a Mistrial was made by the defendants.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kennedy v. Hargett