McMillan v. Gomez’s Empirical Analysis
19 F.3d 465 · 1994
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Leavitt v. Arave (2004), Killian v. Poole (2001)
17 federal appellate · 3 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Doyle v. Ohio · 34 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Dillon · Mikes v. Borg · Suniga v. Rj Bunnell
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the prosecution need not affirmatively 'rule out every hypothesis except that of guilt,' and that a reviewing court 'faced with a record of historical facts that supports conflicting inferences must presume--even if it does not affirmatively appear in the record--that the trier of fact resolved any such conflicts in favor of the prosecution, and must defer to that resolution.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Js Stainer“On cross-examination of Reynolds, McMillan's counsel had sought to give the impression that McMillan was cooperative with the police. It was proper for the prosecution to refute this impression by asking about his later noncooperation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burell v. State
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.