State v. McClanahan’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably State v. Gustin (1973), 25 Cal. 4th 441 - People v. Williams (2001)
44 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 Sparf v. United States · State v. Doyle · Thompson v. Norman · State v. Osburn · Schroeder v. Richardson
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is the proper function and duty of a jury to accept the rules of law given to it in the instructions by the court, apply those rules of law in determining what facts are proven and render a verdict based thereon.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[Y]ou are entitled to act upon your conscientious feeling about what is a fair result in this case and acquit the defendant if you believe that justice requires such a result. Exercise your judgment without passion or prejudice, but with honesty and understanding. Give respectful regard to my statements of the law 33 for what help they may be in arriving at a conscientious determination of justice in this case. That is your highest duty as a public body and as officers of this court.' PIK, Criminal, §51.03.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“verdict must be founded entirely upon the evidence admitted and the law as given in these instructions”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.