1 Md. App. 511 - McFadden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 1997 · most notably 27 Md. App. 361 - Cummings v. State (1975), 2 Md. App. 692 - Tender v. State (1968)
44 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Davis v. North Carolina · Neusbaum v. State · Wood v. State
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Manslaughter has been defined to be ‘the unlawful and felonious killing of another, without malice aforethought, either express or implied, and is either voluntary or involuntary homicide, depending upon the fact whether there was an intention to kill or not.’ (1 Wharton Cr. Law, par. 421.)””
1 later decision 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.