Kerlin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Langley v. State (1971), Lannan v. State (1992)
68 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 Lovely v. United States · Woods v. State · Meeks v. State · Langley v. State · Denton 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Acts showing a perverted sexual instinct are circumstances which with other circumstances may have a tendency to connect an accused with a crime of that character'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Warrick v. State · Lannan v. State
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.