Drake v. Kemp’s Empirical Analysis
762 F.2d 1449 · 1985
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Colon (2004), Brooks v. Kemp (1985)
104 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Gregg v. Georgia
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he prosecution's theories of the same crime in the two different trials negate one another. They are totally inconsistent. This flip flopping of theories of the offense was inherently unfair.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bowen v. Kemp · Wilson v. Kemp“Arguments delivered while wrapped in the cloak of state authority have a heightened impact on the jury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.