State v. MacKinnon’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. DuBray (2003), 205 W. Va. 326 - State v. Guthrie (1999)
68 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 Trammel v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Torcaso v. Watkins · State v. Weeks · United States v. Kennedy
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.
“[P]arties on appeal are bound by the record and may not add additional matters in briefs or appendices.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marriage of Toavs · State v. JC“Evidence concerning the sexual conduct of the victim is inadmissible in prosecutions under this part except evidence of the victim’s past sexual conduct with the offender or evidence of specific instances of the victim’s sexual activity to show the origin of semen, pregnancy, or disease that is at issue in the prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Aguado“Confessions made to member of clergy. A clergyman or priest cannot, without the consent of the person making the confession, be examined as to any confession made to him in his professional character in the course of discipline enjoined by the church to which he belongs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gooding
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.