McClung v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably Cargill v. State (1986), Henderson v. State (1970)
39 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 Bryant v. State · Gore v. State · Wilson v. State · Wynne v. State · Bines v. State
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In McClung v. State, 206 Ga. 421, 423 [( 57 SE2d 559 ) (1950)], it was said: “‘The flight of the accused, the time when and the place where arrested, the manner of the arrest, how he was armed, and whether he resisted, and all the circumstances connected with the arrest, we consider proper evidence to be submitted to the jury to be weighed by them for what they are worth.’ Wayne v. State, 56 Ga. 113 (5), 119 [(1876)] ,” 6”
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.