Kendricks v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2009
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Ingram v. Commonwealth · Humphrey v. Commonwealth
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If he had been eighteen at the time he committed the first offense, it is unlikely that any court would wait six years to try a person charged with a criminal offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hon v. Commonwealth“he was over eighteen at the time he committed each of the offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hon v. Commonwealth
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.