People v. McMahon’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 1978
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 Brown v. Swineford · Watt v. People · Lipsey v. People · Filippo v. People · Fox v. People
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If this were the most serious objection to this record we would not be disposed to reverse for that reason, although we regard the argument of the State's attorney as near the danger line. He had the right to refer to and comment on the testimony of the witnesses for the prosecution and call the jury's attention to the fact, where such was the fact, that their testimony had not been contradicted or disputed, even though plaintiff in error was the only person who was in a position to have disputed such testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Has it been denied? Has it been disputed? * * * There has been no disputing of it by any man or woman or any individual on the face of the earth. It stands. It is the evidence in this case. You can't get away from it. It has not been denied. It has not been disputed. There isn't anything to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Is there a man or woman on earth that ever came in here and contradicted her in the least? No, sir.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.