State v. McTague’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably People v. Prosser (1955), State v. Estencion (1981)
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions — followed in 13 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 State v. Artz
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The spirit of the law is that the accused must go on record in the attitude of demanding a trial or resisting delay. If he does not do this he must be held, in law, to have waived the privilege. Until he has so acted the state is not called upon to establish the existence of the. statutory ‘good cause.’ State v. Artz, 154 Minn. 290 , 191 N. W. 605 ; State v. Dinger, 51 N. D. 98 , 199 N. W. 196 , and cases cited; 44 L. R. A. (N. S.) 871, note. Upon the record defendant was not entitled to the relief sought.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a substantial reason — one that affords a legal excuse”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Toney
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.