State v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Layton City v. Carr (2014), 2019 UT App 173 - State v. Popp (2019)
107 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 Strickland v. Washington · State v. Manussier · State v. Verde · State v. Templin · State v. Larsen
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Failure to raise futile objections does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Diaz · State v. Wells“[Elvidence not shown to be reliable cannot, as a matter of law, assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue and, therefore, is inadmissible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[to establish prejudice, [DJefendant must show a reasonable probability ... that except for ineffective counsel, the result would have been different.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Diaz · State v. Wells
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.