State v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Ahearn (1979), Phillips v. Clancy (1986)
2 district · 42 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 In Re Wright · In Re Monaghan · Fuller v. City of Rutland · In Re Davis · State v. Dragon
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That reputation must be general in the community. It must be based on the need of the people in the community to deal with the person who is the subject of the reputation. That reputation must be developed over a sufficient time to give a true opportunity to judge character. That reputation must be based on a community of enough individuals with the required contact with the subject to be insulated from the vagaries of individual personality conflicts. That reputation must be for such character traits as are broad enough to be subject to observation by a community.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vachon“Without a showing of prejudice, the burden of which is on appellant, error is not grounds for reversal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Heffernan
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.