State v. McPhail’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Greenfield (1993), State v. Santiago (1998)
77 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Bagley · Washington v. Texas · United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“insufficiency of the evidence presented at the probable cause hearing will deprive the trial court of jurisdiction over the person of the defendant,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyd v. Meachum
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.