Kelly v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Scamardo v. State (1974), Davenport v. State (1978)
32 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 · Gault · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Brown v. Allen
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the result of such a hearing to revoke is not a conviction but a finding upon which the trial court might exercise its discretion by revoking or continuing probation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davenport v. State“The question at a revocation hearing is whether the appellant broke the contract he made with the court after the determination of his guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davenport v. State“A probation revocation hearing is not ... a criminal prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davenport 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.