Kennedy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Hopkinson v. State (1981), Galesburg Construction Co. of Wyoming v. Board of Trustees of Memorial Hospital of Converse County (1982)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Woodson v. North Carolina · Jurek v. Texas
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Whoever purposely and with premeditated malice, or in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate any rape, arson, robbery, or burglary, or by administering poison or causing the same to be done, kills any human being, is guilty of murder in the first degree. “(e) Upon conviction of murder in the first degree, if the offense does not involve a course of conduct as described in subsection (b) of this section, the person convicted shall be sentenced to imprisonment for life.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Collins v. State · Jones v. State“"* * * We are convinced that had this been called to the trial court's attention this would have been done. Error cannot be asserted for the first time on appeal, Wright v. State, Wyo., 466 P.2d 1014, 1016 , and Connor v. State, Wyo., 537 P.2d 715, 717 . * * *" 559 P.2d at 1018 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. State · Hatheway v. State“* * * each verdict shall also contain the words, `and find that defendant was sane at the time of the commission of the offense.' * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. State · Hatheway v. State
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.