State v. McPhail’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2014
11 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 United States v. Lovett · De Veau v. Braisted · State v. O'BRIEN · Piper v. Meredith · State v. Harvey
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the word ‘capital’ in the indictment of attempted ‘capital’ murder may be considered surplusage under RSA 629:1 IV because the State would not be required to prove an attempted ‘capital’ murder in order to sustain a charge of attempted murder; all classifications of murder are included in the charge.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Allen
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.