Kelley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 1993 · most notably David v. State (1988), Wright v. State (1979)
46 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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Ker v. State of California · Sedillo v. United States · Harris v. United States · Barrett 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The observation of evidence in plain view is not a search, or to say the least, not an unreasonable one. A resulting seizure is not the result of an unreasonable search. Looking at what is in plain view or not concealed is not a search, as prying into hidden places would be. See, Gerard v. State, 237 Ark. 287 , 372 S.W. 2d 635 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Storey · Wright 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.