McLellan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Chavez v. State (2009), Bigpond v. State (2012)
84 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. Olano · Kotteakos v. United States · Parra v. United States · Petrocelli v. State · Tavares 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We review a district court's decision to admit or exclude evidence for an abuse of discretion.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“failure to object precludes appellate review of the matter unless it rises to the level of plain error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“had [a] substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury's verdict.”
2 later decisions 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.