Carpenter v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2014
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · 232 Cal. App. 2d 650 - People v. Beaugez · State v. Coe · Boulder v. Commonwealth · Musselman 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.
“The Carpenters argue that the word 'may' as used in K.R.S. 508.100(l)(b) does not provide a fair description of the prohibited conduct because virtually any conduct directed toward the child had the possibility of placing the child in a situation that may cause serious physical injury. A proper interpretation of the statute as a whole is that it does not apply to every situation where a child is injured but only to those instances where abuse is involved.”). 18 . The only statutory definition of “may ” is the unhelpful note in KRS 446.010(20) that may”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here was no evidence from which to conclude that these partially healed rib fractures met any minimally acceptable definition for a serious physical injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.