State v. McDonnell’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1967
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Batchelor v. State · Krolage v. People · State v. Olson · State v. Keeney
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the defendant shall appear for arraignment without counsel, he shall be informed by the court that it is his right to have counsel before being arraigned, and shall be asked if he desires the aid of counsel.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * An appellate court should appreciate the superior opportunity afforded the trial court for understanding the situation [under which a plea of guilty was entered and sentence imposed], and should he slow to hold that its discretion was not wisely exercised. The trial court may have thought that the defendant knew well the import of the proceedings and was dissatisfied only when leniency was not shown, and then desired to take a different course. We hold that there was no abuse of discretion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““* * * Have you any attorney? “The defendant: No, sir. “The court: Do you wish to have one, or are you ready to enter a plea? “The defendant: To plead. “The court: What do you plead, guilty or not guilty? “The defendant: Guilty, your honor.””
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.