Kelley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2006
14 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It seems quite clear that the jury acquitted Russell Kelley on the ground that he killed Register in self-defense, and, that being so, Charles Kelley could not be lawfully convicted of any offense predicated upon his being present, aiding and abetting his son in committing a justifiable homicide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The verdict could not have been predicated upon the second hypothesis, as the testimony seems to establish very clearly by the witnesses for the state as well, as for the defense, that Russell Kelley fired the fatal shot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We can readily see how this charge induced the remarkable verdict in this case, where the son who fired the fatal shot was acquitted, and the father convicted of murder in the second degree.”
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.