Hunter v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2023
2 federal appellate · 12 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act)
Relies on Lockett v. Ohio · Ake v. Oklahoma · Morris v. Slappy · California v. Brown · Britt v. North Carolina
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the doctor's initial judgment that appellant's I.Q. is most likely in the low 70's. The significance of this information, of course, is due to the fact that an I.Q. of seventy is the lower threshold at which a defendant becomes 'death ineligible’ under KRS 532.130(2) and KRS 532.140(1).”) (internal quotation marks omitted); C.I. v. Commonwealth, 2003 WL 22461730 , (Ky.Ct.App. Oct.31, 2003) (unpublished) (finding that KBIT test did not qualify as a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.