State v. McVay’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2015
17 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Brady v. United States · Jordan v. Arizona · State v. Arnett · State v. Steelman
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Where] the proposal for the ‘deal’ came from the defendant, the promise , did not interfere with the appellants’ exercise of a free volition in giving the confession— [Where] the promise was solicited by the accused, freely and ’Voluntarily, ... they cannot be heard to say that in accepting the promise they were the victims of compelling influences.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wimbley v. State“couched in terms of a mere possibility or an opinion,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Strayhand
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.