State v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1995
10 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Jackson v. Denno · Lego v. Twomey · State v. Collins · State v. Wardwell
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““can combine with the foundational evidence of corpus delicti, even if it be only of the minimum cogency requisite to establish the evidentiary admissibility of defendant’s statements, to yield, by mutual corroboration, an intensified eviden-tiary cogency constituting the proof beyond a reasonable doubt necessary for conviction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis““. . . to yield, by mutual corroboration, an intensified evidentiary cogency constituting the proof beyond a reasonable doubt necessary for conviction.” State v. Kelley, Me, 308 A.2d 877, 886 (1973)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Atkinson““credible evidence which, if believed, would create in the mind of a reasonable man, not a mere surmise or suspicion, but ... a really substantial belief . . . ” (284 A.2d p. 676)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Atkinson
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.