McDonald v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 1981
2 federal appellate · 18 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 Bradshaw v. State · Poe v. State · State v. Peyton · French v. State · Lewis 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * (Discussion off the record.) By the Court: The Court will hold that Mrs. McDonald is incompetent to testify. By Mr. Lookadoo: I want to make an objection to this later. By the Court: Mrs. McDonald, you may stand aside and go hack to the witness room. Gentlemen of the Jury, the witness who is leaving the stand is the wife of the defendant, and the Court has held that a wife cannot testify against her husband except where she has been personally injured; the Supreme Court has held that this does not include children. All right, call your next witness.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. State““Appellant in Assignment 2 argues that the State erred in offering as a witness appellant’s wife knowing that she could not be compelled to testify against her husband (by virtue of 43-2019, 43-2020), and that this offer prejudiced the jury against him. We do not agree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. State““It appears that appellant made no objection to the court’s action and he is, therefore, in no position to complain for the first time here.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. State
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.