Marshall Andre Kelly v. Walter T. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
514 F.2d 18 · 1975
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably State v. Carter (1982), Surinder Bains v. Gomez Steve Cambra (2000)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Griffin v. California · United States of America Ex Rel. James C. Haynes v. Charles L. McKendrick Warden, Wallkill State Prison, Walkill, New York · Hayes 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hink about the consequences of letting a guilty man, a man guilty of serious and rather horrible crime, go free. Because maybe the next time it won't be a little black girl from the other side of the tracks; maybe it will be somebody you know.... And maybe the next time he'll use the knife”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constituted a highly inflammatory and wholly impermissible appeal to racial prejudice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.