State v. Wayne Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably State v. Glenn (1984), State v. Staples (1980)
41 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 · Bruton v. United States · North Carolina v. Alford · Mincey v. Arizona · Harris v. New York
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'We prefer to recognize that motivations may be mixed, and to permit conviction where the obstructive purpose was present.' " 3 While "merely refusing to answer police questions concerning the fugitive . . . does not fall within the purview of [Alabama's] statute,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[The defendant] has the choice, after weighing the advantage of the privilege against self-incrimination against the advantage of putting forward his version of facts and his reliability as a witness, not to testify at all. He cannot reasonably claim that the Fifth Amendment gives him not only this choice but, if he elects to testify, an immunity from cross-examination on the matters he has himself put in dispute."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robinson“rather than intending to hinder the apprehension of his brother, he was fleeing to prevent his own apprehension,”
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.