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McCoy v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2015

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
3
states following
August 2021
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Faretta v. California · Berger v. United States · Ring v. Arizona · Swain v. State of Alabama

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'[i]t is equally his duty to see that justice be done by giving defendant a fair and impartial trial.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “a prosecutor has 'special responsibilities' as 'a minister of justice and not simply ... an advocate'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[T]he prosecutor 'represents all the people, including the defendant who was being tried,'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.