State v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably McCarthy v. Manson (1983), State v. Hines (1998)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 98 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 Barker v. Wingo · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Bell v. Wolfish · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under appropriate circumstances, a prior statement, consistent with a witness' testimony, may be admitted after introduction of an inconsistent statement.... There is an important qualification appended to this rule: When a prior consistent statement is received ... under the principle we have applied, it is admitted to affect credibility only, not to establish the truth of the statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The general rule is that a party cannot strengthen the testimony of his own witness by showing that he has made previous statements to the same effect as his testimony ....”
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.