State v. McVay’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably State v. Adamson (1983), State v. Mincey (1981)
2 federal appellate · 88 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 Chapman v. State of California · Harrington v. California · Anderson v. United States · State v. Brady
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question is not whether, absent the error, there were sufficient facts from which the jury could find the defendant guilty, the question is whether, without this evidence, the appellate court can say, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the jury would have found the defendant guilty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas · State v. Vincent““The testimony of Detective Klettlinger, in effect, was a statement as to what the authorities in Pima County and California told him about defendant’s conduct after the murder. The authorities from Pima County and California were not available for cross-examination. What they actually said to Detective Klettlinger would be hearsay and would be inadmissible as such. The effect of Detective Klettlinger’s testimony was to bring these same hearsay statements into evidence in the form of Detective Klettlinger’s opinion. As such, Detective Klettlinger’s opinion was subject to the hearsay objection and was erroneously admitted.” Id. at 453 , 622 P.2d at 12 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jessen““ * * * The test for determining harmless error is ‘whether there was reasonable probability ... that a verdict might have been different had the error not been committed.’ (citations omitted) To put it differently, would the jury have found the defendant guilty in the absence of this inadmissible hearsay? In this case, we believe that the jury would have found the defendant guilty even if the inadmissible evidence had not been admitted. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams
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.