State v. Kenny’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2005
6 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the modern Court room it is a rule that as little show of arms, etc., must be made as possible. In most jurisdictions handcuffs even are not allowed to be kept on the defendant during the trial. The presence of uniformed men, the display of arms, in fact anything going to create the impression that the person in custody is an unusually dangerous criminal, has its weight with the jury, and should not be allowed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Francis
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.