State v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 497 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 517 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Cesare v. Cesare (1998), 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State (1984)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 497 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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 Washington v. Texas · Webb v. Texas · State v. Roth · State v. MacOn · Massiah 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 517 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the intended testimony must concern a subject matter that is beyond the ken of the average juror; (2) the field testified to must be at a state of the art such that an expert's testimony could be sufficiently reliable; and (3) the witness must have sufficient expertise to offer the intended testimony.”
44 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) by expert testimony as to the general acceptance, among those in the profession, of the premises on which the proffered expert witness based his or her analysis; (2) by authoritative scientific and legal writings indicating that the scientific community accepts the premises underlying the proffered testimony; and (3) by judicial opinions that indicate the expert’s premises have gained general acceptance. [ Kelly, supra, 97 N.J. at 210 , 478 A.2d 364 .]”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Compton · State v. J.Q.“essential to rebut the general misconceptions regarding battered women”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.