State v. McClellan’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2025
16 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. Litherland · State v. Brake · State v. Brown · State v. Lee · State v. Pennington
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tlhe reviewing court must determine 'whether there is a reasonable likelihood that the outcome of [the defendant's] trial would have been more favorable to him [or her] had' the [discovery] error not occurred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]ur constitutional system is primarily designed to protect the innocent, not punish the guilty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When confronted with ineffective assistance of counsel claims, we review a lower court's purely factual findings for clear error, but review the application of the law to the facts for correctness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.