State v. Kilby’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Beck v. Alabama (1980), State v. Kidder (1987)
8 federal appellate · 138 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 State v. Nolton · State v. Loudermill
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that an occupied structure is a permanent dwelling house which is regularly inhabited, that the occupying family was in and out on the day in question, and that such house was burglarized when the family was temporarily absent[.]”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f the trier of fact could reasonably find against the state and for the accused upon one or more of the elements of the crime charged and for the state on the remaining elements, which by themselves would sustain a conviction on a lesser-included offense * * *.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hines · State v. Rodriguez“no person, by force, stealth, or deception, * * * shall trespass in a permanent or temporary habitation of any person when any person other than an accomplice of the offender is present or likely to be present.”
4 later decisions 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.