State v. McTague’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2016
13 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 State v. Nelson · State v. Nelson · People v. Sainz · Bigham v. State · Carr 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[fjlight before apprehension or after arrest ... is a circumstance to be considered — not as a presumption of guilt, but as something for the jury [to consider]— as suggestive of a consciousness of guilt; and the same is true of an attempt to escape or resisting arrest or passing under an assumed name.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McDaniel““* * * The state cannot go so far as to favor or induce a conviction because the defendant is a generally bad man and society should get rid of him, since it has him on trial, irrespective of his guilt of the particular offense charged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kolander
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.