State v. McLennen’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1980
3 federal appellate · 8 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. Collyer · State v. Robey · Clark v. State · Pigg v. State · Commonwealth v. Walsh
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the indictment, the accused is charged with assaulting and inflicting a wound with intent to murder; by the verdict, he is convicted of as-suiting and inflicting a wound without the intent charged. In the greater offense, the intent is to kill; in the smaller offense, the intent to kill is wanting. The offense for which he is convicted is included in the one charged in the indictment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If the intent with which the assault is alleged to have been made were stricken out of this indictment, or if it were rejected as surplusage, the indictment would still contain enough to constitute an offense under section 1744.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.