McNair v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
147 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Jackson v. State (2001), Rose v. State (2007)
147 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Batson v. Kentucky · Martin v. Wainwright · United States v. Polizzi · United Housing Foundation, Inc. v. Forman
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is the jury's function, not that of the court, to assess the weight of the evidence and determine the credibility of witnesses.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Merlino v. State · Conner v. State“a verdict supported by substantial evidence will not be disturbed by a reviewing court.”
3 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.