State v. McClendon’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably State v. Brooks (1986), Jackson v. State (1977)
64 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Cichos v. Indiana · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Cummins v. Price · State v. Severns · Thomas v. State · State v. McClendon
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Unless an accused is legally insane, the law is not and should not be so unrealistic and foolish as to permanently free, without acquittal by a Judge or a jury, a person against whom a prima facie case of murder is made out.’ (Emphasis in original) Commonwealth v. Price, supra, at 763 .” We said: “In short, limited amnesia does not totally incapacitate the defense and the defendant is free to assist counsel in numerous ways.” 103 Ariz. at 109 , 437 P. 2d at 425 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson“limited amnesia does not totally incapacitate the defense and the defendant is free to assist counsel in numerous ways”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Palmer
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.