State v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably In Re the Mental Health of L.K.-S. (2011), State v. Matt (2008)
64 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 Illinois v. Allen · State v. Loh · State v. Tapson · State v. Gollehon · State v. DuBray
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the voluntary abandonment of a known right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Matt
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.