McCrary v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Bishop v. State (1997), Pruitt v. State (1988)
6 federal appellate · 55 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Berger v. United States · Green v. United States · United States v. Ewell · De Palma 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`It is an elementary principle of criminal procedure that no person can be convicted of any offense not charged in the indictment. There may, of course, be a conviction of a lesser offense than that expressly named in the indictment, where the former is necessarily included in the latter, and also in some cases in which the lesser is not so included in the greater offense but where the language used in the indictment is sufficient to embrace the smaller offense.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Welch v. State · Nelson v. State“[a] defendant is on notice of the crime charged (named) in the indictment or accusation and (1) lesser crimes which are included in the crime charged as a matter of law ... and (2) other lesser crimes which are shown by the facts alleged to show how the crime charged was committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“law puts a defendant on notice that he 'may be convicted of a crime included in a crime charged in the indictment or accusation' and it defines included crimes.”
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.