Ice v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Smith v. Murray (1986), Sawyer v. Smith (1990)
5 federal appellate · 73 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 · Griffin v. California · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Irvin v. Dowd · Sheppard v. Maxwell
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n a death penalty case every prejudicial error must be considered, whether or not an objection was made in the trial court”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Murray · State v. Martinez“the message [is] that the jurors' awesome responsibility is lessened by the fact that their decision is not the final one.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[T]he question of whether objection was made at the trial level is only significant where it may reasonably be inferred that appellant intentionally failed to object for reasons of trial tactics." Ice v. Commonwealth, Ky., 667 S.W.2d 671, 674 (1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.