486 So. 2d 578 - Kelley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Grant (2002), McDougall v. North Carolina (1986)
1 federal appellate · 84 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Rhode Island v. Innis · Allen v. United States
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Claims of ineffective assistance of counsel are generally not reviewable on direct appeal but are more properly raised in a motion for postconviction relief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) The court , should have dismissed his indictment because the destruction of physical evidence after Sweet’s second trial violated Kelley’s due process rights. (2) The court should have excluded Abe Narnia’s testimony regarding a conversation between Namia and Sweet in 1967. (3) The court erred by refusing to answer a question posed the jury during its deliberations. In particular, the jury asked “if John J. Sweet received immunity in Florida for 1st Degree murder and perjury before he gave information on the Maxcy trial and if he had anything to gain by his testimony[.]” (4) The court erred in allowing the jurors to take notes. (5) The court erred in admitting statements Kelley made to the FBI agents who apprehended him indicating Kelley’s knowledge about the Maxcy murder at the time of his arrest. (6) Florida’s statute governing the proceedings for issuing death sentences is facially unconstitutional and, in any event, was improperly applied by the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f you fail to reach a verdict, there is no reason to believe the case can be tried again any better or more exhaustively than it has been.”
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.