McKenna v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Evans v. State (2001), Tavares v. State (2001)
32 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 Caldwell v. Mississippi · Payne v. Tennessee · Estelle v. Williams · Holbrook v. Flynn · Franklin v. Lynaugh
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Failure to . . . request a jury instruction precludes appellate review, unless the error is patently prejudicial and requires the court to act sua sponte to protect the defendant's right to a fair trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a defendant fails to present an argument below and the district court has not considered its merit, we will not consider it on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“), and disagree. We conclude that the district court did not err in denying appellant's motion for a mistrial because the marshal's communications with the juror neither related to the evidence nor the marshal's opinion regarding the case, but rather involved safety concerns that were within the purview of the marshal's security duties. See NRS 3.310(3) (providing that a court marshal is charged with”
1 later decision 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.