State v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably State v. Dulany (1989), State v. Turner (1981)
49 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. Umfrees · State v. Brown · State v. Reed · State v. Henderson · State v. Auger
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is obvious that the suggestion that defendant take the money was made in order to get him to stop the beatings. It is also reasonable to assume that the victims were acting under the belief that if defendant did not get the money he would again commence beating them. Under these circumstances the jury could reasonably find that the taking was accomplished by putting the victims “in fear of immediate injury to their person and by violence to their persons” as alleged in the information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Elliott““Evidence that another person had an opportunity or motive for committing the crime for which the defendant is being tried is not admissible without proof that such other person committed some act directly connecting him with the crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Mulligan
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.