McCormick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably Cartee v. State (1932), Johnson v. State (1995)
28 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.
“[c]ontinuous acts or a series of event, especially when closely connected in point of time, which ... are necessary or clearly helpful to a correct understanding of the main transaction which tend to explain and elucidate the conduct and purposes of the parties are as much of the res gestae as the direct act itself, and are admissible as a part of the transaction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Byrd v. State · Johnson v. State
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.