People v. McFee’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
October 2021
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Davis v. Washington · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · Giles v. California · Michigan v. Bryant
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court abuses its discretion when its decision is manifestly arbitrary, unreasonable, or unfair, or is based on an erroneous understanding or application of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“substantially influenced the verdict or affected the fairness of the trial proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“primary purpose of creating an out-of-court substitute for trial testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Jaeb
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.