State v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably State Ex Rel. Hovey Concrete Products Co. v. Mechem (1957), State v. Mosley (1965)
50 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 John Den James Murray and John Kayser v. The Hoboken Land and Improvement Company John Den James B Murray et al. · United States v. Ferreira · Benner v. Porter · In re Sanborn · Gordon 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the board of loan commissioners of the state of New Mexico constituted a court, and the presentation of the claim to such board and the proceedings had before such board upon such claim constituted a judicial inquiry and resulted in a judicial judgment or decree, there could be no prosecution for false pretenses made to such board in regard to any claim, and that the remedy would be a prosecution for perjury instead.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cearley“The rights and liabilities of a private individual are fixed by law and are to be determined by judicial inquiry * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.