McGill v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Ledford v. State (1994), Turpin v. Todd (1997)
41 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 · Hawes v. State · Edge v. State · Gilreath v. State · Romine 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While other counsel, had they represented appellant, may have exercised different judgment, the fact that the trial counsel chose to try the case in the manner in which it was tried and made certain difficult decisions regarding the defense tactics to be employed with which appellant and his present counsel now disagree, does not require a finding that the representation below was so inadequate as to amount to a denial of effective assistance of counsel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Black v. State“it would not then go on to consider evidence of provocation or passion which might authorize a verdict for voluntary manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dent v. State“counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance.”
1 later decision 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.