State v. McKessor’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably State v. Holmes (2004), State v. Baker (1991)
4 district · 38 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 Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Wade · Kirby v. Illinois · Nix v. Williams · United States v. Jeffers
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he word 'facilitate' means something more than just to make more convenient. 'To facilitate' must have some significant bearing on making the commission of the crime easier.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Olsman“[m]ust have some significance independent of the other crime in that it makes the other crime substantially easier [to commit] or substantially lessens the risk of detection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Olsman
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.