Kenley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2000
3 federal appellate · 10 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 Strickland v. Washington · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Nantahala Power & Light Co. v. Thornburg · Sullivan v. United States
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Kenley had been aggressive, hostile and went into uncontrollable rages and had shown improvement only while on medication in an institution; that Kenley grew up in a non-nurturing environment and had a violent and angry relationship with his father; that all attempts at control, help and treatment of him had proven futile; that Dr. Manion expressed the opinion that “treatment will facilitate adjustment, further adjustment”; and that the latest documentation by either witness was at least 6 years old.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kenley v. Armontrout
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.