McGhee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently November 1989 · most notably Roberson v. State (1913), B'ham Ry. L. & P. Co. v. Cockrum (1912)
70 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 Morris v. State · Crawford v. State · Parrish v. State · Miller v. State · Compton v. State
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is incumbent upon the defendant to establish his plea of self-defense, he meets the legal requirements if the evidence creates a reasonable doubt as to whether or„not he acted in self-defense.””
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.