McClendon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Bowden v. State (1988), 715 So. 2d 825 - Boyd v. State (1997)
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 Spicer v. State · Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Maddox · Humber v. State · New York Life Ins. Co. v. Turner · Allen v. Fincher
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When it is shown that a crime has been committed and the circumstances point to the accused as the guilty agent, then proof of a motive to commit the offense, though weak and inconclusive evidence, is nevertheless admissible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.