Kennedy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2003
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · McClain v. United States · Arnold v. State · Kennedy v. State · Ash v. State
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Cases cited by the appellants to the effect that maximum sentences should commence with initial incarceration and to the effect that ambiguities in the system should be resolved so as to accommodate early consideration for parole have no application here. In Wyoming, there is no parole from a sentence for life. Possibilities of commutation are matters within the constitutional prerogative of the executive department and do not concern the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kennedy v. State“separate penalties will ordinarily be exacted upon convictions for distinct offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones 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.