State v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
June 2017
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Ashe v. Swenson · Green v. United States · United States v. Powell · Dunn v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, in cases of inconsistent verdicts returned by the same jury at the same trial, the doctrine of collateral estoppel or issue preclusion has no meaning, because it cannot be determined why a jury returned an acquittal.”); see also 2A Charles Alan Wright et al., Federal Practice & Procedure § 468 (4th ed.2015) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Owens v. Trammell
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.