Kelley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 1976 · most notably Maxwell v. Stephens (1965), Lonnie Mitchell v. Dan D. Stephens, Superintendent of Arkansas State Penitentiary (1965)
12 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 Younger v. State · McNamara v. State · Gilchrist v. State · Cranford v. State · Avant v. State
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jury shall have the right in all eases where the punishment is now death by law, to render a verdict for life imprisonment in the State Penitentiary at hard labor.” Crawford & Moses’ Digest, § 3206.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webb 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.