State v. McO'Blenis’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 1980 · most notably Martinez v. State (1980), United States v. Singleton (1972)
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Davis v. State · People v. Moore · Tharp v. State · Bellinger v. People · Carr v. Crain
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Taken in the aggregate, they constitute a vast moral power in eliciting the truth, all of which is lost when the examination is had out of court and the mere words of the witness are reproduced in the form of a deposition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martinez v. State“that in all criminal prosecutions the accused has the right to meet the witnesses against him face to face”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Harp
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.