State v. McCauley’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably 6 Cal. 3d 628 - People v. Anderson (1972), McBean v. City of Fresno (1896)
1 federal appellate · 58 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power over the whole subject of punishment for crime is vested in the Legislature”
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.