State v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 715 So. 2d 457 - State v. Francis (1998), 649 So. 2d 1078 - State v. Smith (1995)
32 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 Strickland v. Washington · Barker v. Wingo · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Estelle v. McGuire · Doggett 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A reasonable doubt is not a mere possible doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the jury understands the necessity to determine the defendant's guilt with near certainty. Moreover, the phrase immediately preceding the challenged term requires the jury to consider all the evidence. Three sentences later the charge instructs the jury that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lennon“reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
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.