Pennington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Cooks v. Ward (1998), Williams v. State (2001)
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Batson v. Kentucky · Manson v. Brathwaite · United States v. Matlock
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the act of repeatedly firing a shotgun in a rather small, enclosed area such as a 7-11 store is a reckless act. [The other person in the store] could easily have been killed by one of those shotgun blasts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the manner and extent of voir dire examination rests within the sound discretion of the trial judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“I think we should hear what he has to say at least, Your Honor,”
1 later decision 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.