Huff v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2019
13 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 · Rummel v. Estelle · California v. Ramos · Commonwealth v. Reneer · Abernathy v. Commonwealth
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.
“We do not find the minimum imposed by the legislature to be arbitrary or capricious in any way. It is the uncertainty of life itself, not a declaration of a minimum eligibility, which creates a possible disparity. For example, a life sentence imposed on a 60-year-old defendant is not the same as a life sentence imposed upon a 20-year-old defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 116 of the Constitution of Kentucky’s ‘Judicial Article' which was approved by the voters in 1976 provides that: 'The Supreme Court shall have the power to prescribe rules governing its appellate jurisdiction....’ Thus, the source of the Court's rule making power is firmly rooted within the Constitution.”). 67 . KRS 21A.050(2) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“This section shall not apply to a person who has been determined by a court, pursuant to KRS 533.060, to have been a victim of domestic violence and abuse pursuant — to—KRS—533.060 with regard to the offenses involving the death of the victim or serious physical injury to the victim.”
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.