McKee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2016
16 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 Rakas v. Illinois · Berger v. United States · United States v. Jefferson · Bruno v. Rushen · Rowbottom 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the State enters a plea agreement, it is held to the most meticulous standards of both promise and performance. . . . The violation of the terms or the spirit of the plea bargain requires reversal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quisano v. State“[p]rosecutors are put in the precarious position of having to pursue criminal convictions zealously, while at the same time, insure that defendants receive a fair and impartial trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quisano v. State“[fit is as much a duty to refrain from improper methods calculated to produce a wrongful conviction as it is to use every legitimate means to bring about a just one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quisano 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.