Kennedy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
July 1999
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Martinez Chavez v. State · Jackson v. State · Kennedy v. State · Martinez Chavez 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial court can proceed to impose a penalty of death only ... when all the facts available to the court point so clearly to the imposition of the death penalty that the jury's recommendation is unreasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roark 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.