State v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Downey (2008), State v. Johnson (2010)
42 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 Mallory v. State · State v. Hernandez · United States v. Pisani · United States v. Williams · State v. Meadors
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“He has testified as an expert about three hundred times, but this was only the second time he testified about elimination of alcohol over a period of time. {13} We cannot say that the trial court abused its discretion in determining Smock to be qualified. While his experience in retrograde extrapolation may not have been vast,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Downey“In determining whether a judge has exceeded the bounds of acceptable conduct, the proceedings must be viewed as a whole. The critical inquiry is whether the trial judge's behavior was so prejudicial that it denied [the appellants] a fair, as opposed to a perfect[,] trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ross“[a]ny perceived deficiency in . . . education and training is relevant to the weight accorded by the jury to [the] testimony and not to the testimony's admissibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Downey
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.