Kelley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1971
8 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 Whitmer v. Cardwell · Young v. North East Coal Co. · Conn v. Commonwealth · Thompson v. Commonwealth · Stewart v. Lafoe
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, upon the whole case, you have a reasonable doubt of the defendant having been proved guilty, you ought to find him not guilty; or if you find him guilty, but on all the evidence, have a reasonable doubt as to whether he has been proved guilty of wilful murder, voluntary manslaughter or involuntary manslaughter, you will find him guilty of the lower offense, involuntary manslaughter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““* * * [W]hile it would have been better for the court to have given such instruction when moved for, its declining to give it we do not regard as being of prejudicial effect, where it was nowhere commented on by the court.””
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.