McKinstry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 1994 · most notably Drollinger v. State (1980), Wright v. State (1977)
42 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 Blackburn v. State · Davidson v. State · Harris v. State · Brown v. United States · Fahnestock 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An act is done purposely if it is willed, is the product of a conscious design, intent or plan that it be done, and is done with an awareness of probable consequences."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Horace v. State · Brown v. State““Blackstone defined malice, which even then distinguished murder from other homicides, as ‘any evil design in general; the dictate of a wicked, depraved and malignant heart.’ ” 264 Ind. at 35 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Whoever, purposely and maliciously, but without premeditation, kills any human being, is guilty of murder in the second degree... ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hensjn v. State · Henson 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.