Kelly v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2019
20 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. Chaney · Whitton v. State · Waters v. State · State v. Erickson · State v. Wortham
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he goal of community condemnation is distinct from retribution[.] ... The use of retribution as a goal of sentencing is inconsistent with the mandate of art. I, § 12 of the Alaska Constitution[.] ... [But] the support of community expectations that existing norms will be enforced and [that offenses] will be punished is separate from retribution. [A criminal sentence can properly] reflect[ ] community beliefs that certain norms are [inviolable] and will be upheld by the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Graham v. State“the assumption that an offender will be paroled on a particular date is, at best, speculative,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Lohnes
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.