State v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1995
16 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 State v. Arlis Blair · Whaley v. State · Mathues v. State · State v. Blair · Griffin 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A letter to one’s lawyer alleging facts outside a record of trial presents nothing for an appellate court to review. Appellate review of a conviction based upon a plea of guilty is confined to irregularities disclosed by the record and going to jurisdiction or legality of the proceedings.” (l. c. 716.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kelly · State v. Caldwell
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.