McNelton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Pellegrini v. State (2001), Colwell v. State (2002)
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 Strickland v. Washington · Jones v. West · Fex v. Michigan · Lee v. United States · St. Ledger v. Kentucky Revenue Cabinet
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.
“(1) the record is [not] sufficient to determine that the [prior bad act] evidence is admissible under Tinch; [and] (2) the result would [not] have been the same if the trial court had not admitted the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To be deemed an admissible bad act, the trial court must determine, outside the presence of the jury, that: (1) the incident is relevant to the crime charged; (2) the act is proven by clear and convincing evidence; and (3) the probative value of the evidence is not substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young 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.