McGuff v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently November 1990 · most notably 358 So. 2d 1040 - Bankston v. State (1978), Henderson v. State (1990)
2 federal appellate · 77 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 Storey v. State · Roberts v. State · Alabama Power Co. v. Edwards · Robinson & Co. v. Greene · Turner v. State
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Previous threats, whether or not communicated are under those circumstances, when self-defense is on the evidence sufficiently shown to justify its sub-_ mission to the jury [, admissible] for the purpose of showing quo animo of such demonstration or attack, * * * or to shed light upon who was the aggressor, * * * or to give color and character to such aggressive conduct; and this rule applies to evidence of illwill, and previous difficulties in general terms, * * * and to evidence of the bad character of deceased for peace and quiet. * * * ” (Bracketed matter added.)”
2 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.