State v. O'Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
October 1985
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Hooey · Pollard v. United States · State v. Johnson · State v. Hollars · State v. Frank
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And third, that the defendant had possession of this property so soon after it was stolen and under such circumstances as to make it unlikely that he obtained possession by any other way than by committing the offenses of breaking or entering and larceny with which he is charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Locklear
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.