Kennedy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1995 · most notably Smith v. State (1913), Ala. Great Southern R. R. v. Hill (1890)
29 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 Alabama Great Soiitliern Railroad v. Hawk · Gunter v. State · Sylvester v. State · Burns v. State · Wills v. State
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The paper was entire and not severable, and it was impracticable to admit a part of it to go to the jury. The practice in such cases is to admit the entire paper, and limit its effect as evidence by a proper charge to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sims v. Struthers
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.