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← 280 Ga. 669 - Kell v. State

Kell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
October 2024
most recently cited

24 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Crawford v. Washington · Chapel v. State · Bridges v. State · Mincey 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “an attempt by a third person to influence a witness not to testify or to testify falsely”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “evidence of a threat or attempt to influence a witness made by a third party must be linked to the defendant in order to be relevant to any material issues.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[E]vidence of a defendant's attempt to influence or intimidate a witness can serve as circumstantial evidence of guilt.”
    2 later decisions 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.