Kelley v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 1995
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Beach v. Norton
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the wise policy of the law that its process shall be directed to known public officers and the law sanctions a departure from this policy only in cases of supposed-necessity. Statutes authorising such departure should receive a strict construction.””
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.