Kelly v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1986
20 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 McCluskey v. State · Pierce v. State · Sanders v. State · 96 Okla. Crim. 36 - Fulbright v. State · 92 Okla. Crim. 31 - Berkihiser 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The statutory power granted to the Court of Criminal Appeals to modify a sentence of one convicted of crime and who has appealed will not be exercised unless court can conscientiously say from ail the facts and circumstances that the sentence is so excessive as to indicate that the jury acted from partiality or prejudice." Kelly v. State, Okl.Cr.App., 415 P.2d 187 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ramos v. State““[A]n appellant will not be permitted to profit by an alleged error which he or his counsel in the first instance invited by opening the question by their own conduct, or by repeated pointed questions de signed to draw out improper testimony; and counsel for the defendant may not profit by whatever error was occasioned' by the admission of such incompetent evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State
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.