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Kelley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

1924

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
January 2016
most recently cited

17 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2016

17 state decisions

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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 Pine v. Commonwealth · Hart v. Commonwealth · West v. Commonwealth · Anderson v. Commonwealth

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““The verdict being a general verdict, it was, in contemplation of law, either a verdict finding the accused guilty of all three of the offenses upon the charges of which she was tried, or guilty of one or more of such offenses and not guilty as to the others. And the judgment having been entered in accordance with the verdict was, in contemplation of law, a judgment convicting the accused of all three of such offenses, or of one or more of them and acquitting her of the others.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Meade v. Commonwealth
  2. “The appellate court is not designed as an arena for the display of the ingenuity and technical skill of counsel, but to attain, as nearly and as speedily as may be, the ends of justice; and parties litigant may not play fast and loose with the court by taking inconsistent positions at different stages of the proceedings in court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Petrus v. Robbins

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.