McAfee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently November 1991 · most notably Ruetz v. State (1978), Strickland v. State (1977)
159 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 Turner v. State · FULLER v. State · Gibson v. State · Stice v. State · Petillo 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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the sufficiency of circumstantial evidence is in question, we examine it carefully, not for the purpose of finding whether or not it is adequate to overcome every reasonable hypothesis of innocence, but with the view of deciding whether an inference may be reasonably drawn therefrom tending to support the finding of the trial court. Stice v. State, 228 Ind. 144 , 89 N.E. 915 (1950); Petillo v. State, 228 Ind. 97 , 89 N.E.2d 623 (1950).””
17 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sarten v. State · Lawson v. State
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.