State v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Hopkins v. Reeves (1998), State v. Palmer (1986)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 54 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Brady v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · Michigan v. Mosley · Garcia 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is error for the trial court to instruct the jury that they may find defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, guilty of murder in the second degree, or guilty of manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reeves v. Hopkins
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.