McKane v. Durston’s Empirical Analysis
153 U.S. 684 · 1894
Citation profile
261 federal appellate · 50 district · 410 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,020 later decisions (82 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois (1956), Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey (1996)
261 federal appellate · 50 district · 410 state decisions — followed in 38 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.
Relationships
Relies on Jugiro v. Brush · Clawson v. United States
Cited together with Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Ross v. Moffitt · Evitts v. Lucey · Gideon v. Wainwright
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 1,020 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A review by an appellate court of the final judgment in a criminal case, however grave the offense of which the accused is convicted, was not at common law, and is not now, a necessary element of due process of law.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right of appeal may be accorded by the state to the accused upon such terms as in its wisdom may be deemed proper.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Andrews v. Swartz · Evitts v. Lucey“whether an appeal should be allowed, and if so, under what circumstances or on what conditions, are matters for each State to determine for itself.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Andrews v. Swartz · Freels v. Hills
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.