Kennedy v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
986 F.2d 1129 · 1993
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019
7 federal appellate · 2 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 Ashe v. Swenson · Montana v. United States · Green v. United States · United States v. Powell · Dowling v. United States
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Green's conviction of second-degree murder established the existence of a fact (the state of mind required for that offense) that was inconsistent with his being guilty of first-degree murder....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the question whether a conviction should be treated as an implied acquittal for purposes of the double jeopardy clause of the U.S. Constitution is a question of federal, not state, law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boyd v. Meachum
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.