State v. McClary’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Doe v. Yale University (2000), Connecticut v. Porter (1997)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 97 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 Frye v. United States · United States v. S.A. Empresa de Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · State v. Stepney · State v. Miller · State v. Esposito
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“find any intent to injure the child or impair its health. All that [is] required [is] the general intent on the part of the defendant to perform the act which resulted in the injury, that is, that the bodily movement [that] resulted in the injury was volitional.”
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.