McCormick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2010 · most notably Wyatt v. United States (1960), State v. Bush (1997)
1 federal appellate · 26 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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘We are of opinion that all transactions and conversations had between the husband and wife in relation to their own affairs, not in the presence of some third person . . . must be excluded. . . . This, we think, is in accord with the former holdings of this court’ — citing Patton v. Wilson, 2 Lea 101 , 113; Orr v. Cox, 3 Lea 621 ; Hyden v. Hyden, 6 Baxt. 408 ; Brewer v. Ferguson, 11 Humph. 565 ; Kimbrough v. Mitchell, 1 Head 540 ; and Barker v. McAuley, 4 Heisk. 424 (Emphasis by Court).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burton v. State““The general and well-settled rule is that letters from one spouse to another are privileged, and fall within the privilege for confidential communications which obtains between husband and wife.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.