State v. McDonell’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 1978 · most notably Konen v. New Orleans Police Department (1954), 366 So. 2d 1308 - State v. Allien (1978)
47 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. Gani · State v. Dunnington · State v. Nomey · State v. Holder · State v. Maloney
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“presents the question of law of whether it be lawful to convict an accused without any proof whatsoever as to his guilt, it is firmly established, and this court has consistently adhered to the proposition, that:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cade“[w]here there is some evidence to sustain the conviction, no matter how little, this court cannot pass upon the sufficiency thereof. That comes within the exclusive province of the trial judge and jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cade“[I]t is only when there is no evidence at all upon some essential element of the crime charged that (the court) may set aside a verdict * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cade
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.