State v. Kenley’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Edwards (2003), Anderson v. State (2006)
3 federal appellate · 52 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 Strickland v. Washington · Furman v. Georgia · Woodson v. North Carolina · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Zant v. Stephens
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's deficient performance, the jury would have concluded the balance of aggravating and mitigating circumstances did not warrant death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Generally, the selection of witnesses and the introduction of evidence are questions of trial strategy and virtually unchallengeable.” State v. Kenley, 952 S.W.2d 250, 266 (Mo. banc 1997). “Defense counsel is not obligated to shop for an expert witness who might provide more favorable testimony.” Id. at 268 (citing [State u] Taylor , 929 S.W.2d [209] at 225 [ (Mo. banc 1996) ]; State v. Mease, 842 S.W.2d 98, 114 (Mo. banc 1992)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goodwin v. State“In the absence of independent evidence that the court failed to thoughtfully and carefully consider the claims, 'there is no constitutional problem with the court adopting in whole or in part the findings of fact and conclusions of law drafted by one of the parties.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. State
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.