McNeill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Sullivan v. State of Arizona (1936), Pilley v. State (1946)
46 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 Cross v. State · Wolffe v. Minnis · O'Donnell v. Rodiger · East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad v. Bayliss · Williams 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a man find his wife in the act of adultery, and, provoked by the wrong done him and moved by the passion naturally engendered, he immediately kills her, he is not guilty of murder, but of manslaughter only, but that, on the other hand, if he does not strike and kill until after there has been time for his passion to cool and for reason to reassert itself, or if he strikes and kills immediately, but is not moved thereto, by the heat of passion but by prior malice, hatred, a desire to avenge, the wrong done him, or by any other motive or upon any design whatever except such as is presently engendered by the paroxysm of rage into which he is thrown by this extreme provocation, he is guilty of murder. And this beyond all doubt is the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brunson v. State
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.