Commonwealth v. Reneer’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Montgomery v. Commonwealth (1991), Mabe v. Commonwealth (1994)
3 federal appellate · 71 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 Kolender v. Lawson · Weaver v. Graham · Miller v. Florida · Godfrey v. Georgia · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We reserve the right to consider any abuses or injustices . . . and we accept its provisions for the time being under the principle of comity."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One of the chief deficiencies in our present procedure is that, after reaching a verdict of guilt, the jury is required to sentence in a vacuum without any knowledge of the defendant’s past criminal record or other matters that might be pertinent to consider in the assessment of an appropriate penalty. On balance, the inconvenience of a bifurcated trial is a small price to pay for a better informed sentencing process.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a legislative attempt to invade the rule making prerogative of the Supreme Court by legislatively prescribing rules of practice and procedure [and therefore] it violate[d] the separation of powers doctrine enunciated in Section 28 of the Kentucky Constitution.”
3 later decisions 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.