State v. McWilliams’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Rosling (2008), State v. Cybulski (2009)
72 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 Monge v. California · Monge v. California · State v. Barker
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Following a verdict or finding of guilty, the court may grant the defendant a new trial if required in the interest of justice. A new trial may be ordered by the court without a motion or may be granted after motion and hearing. (2) The motion for a new trial must be in writing and must specify the grounds for a new trial. The motion must be filed by the defendant within 30 days following a verdict or finding of guilty and be served upon the prosecution. (3) On hearing the motion for a new trial, if justified by law and the weight of the evidence, the court may: (a) deny the motion; (b) grant a new trial; or (c) modify or change the verdict or finding by finding the defendant guilty of a lesser included offense or finding the defendant not guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. MacKrill
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.