State v. McCahill’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Rizzo (2003), State v. Long (2004)
71 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 Baker v. Carr · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · William Marbury v. James Madison · State v. Curcio · Rice v. Cayetano
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do not engage in addressing constitutional questions unless their resolution is unavoidable”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e discern no interference with the Superior Court's role when the legislature enacted [No. 98-51 of the 1998 Public Acts], to prevent release for those who have been convicted of some of the most serious crimes, because the term of incarceration normally levied for such crimes would likely exceed the period of time that it would take for resolution of the defendant's appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Patel“continues after conviction and after judgment, so long as the prisoner is in the custody of the court, but in most cases ceases when he is taken in execution .... [W]hen the courts exercise the common-law power, they may admit to bail, after conviction and after sentence, and until the accused is in execution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Patel
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.