Kell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Gonzalez v. Crosby · State v. Holgate · Patterson v. Patterson · Menzies v. Galetka
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“equitable in nature, saturated with facts, and call upon judges to apply fundamental principles of fairness that do not easily lend themselves to appellate review.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The remedies provided by rule 60(b) should not be understood to be a substitute for appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“district court not only had an opportunity to rule on the issue [that the State argued was not preserved]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.