State v. McDonough’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably State v. Williams (1987), State v. Carpenter (1990)
89 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 State v. Guilfoyle · State v. Murphy · State v. Newman · Middletown Trust Co. v. Bregman · State v. Ford
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The inference drawn from the failure to testify does not supply the place of evidence of material facts and does not shift the burden of proof so as to relieve the party upon whom it rests of the necessity of establishing a prima facie case, although it may turn the scale when the evidence is closely balanced.' Middletown Trust Co. v. Bregman, 118 Conn. 651 , 657 . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“wholly consistent with the defendant's guilt and inconsistent with any other rational conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Murray
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.