State v. McFarland’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2025
7 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. Hyde · United States v. Jackskion · State v. Saba · State v. Russo · Schmidt v. St. Louis Railroad
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . disparaging remarks to the prejudice of the witness’ credibility [which would] constitute reversible error.” (p. 809)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Waite““ruling . of . ‘hostility’ on the part of a witness as a basis for permitting cross-examination . . .”,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Waite““leave to the State to cross-examine the witness produced by it . . . .” (p. 809)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Waite
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.