McClain v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably DeYoung v. State (1997), Barnes v. State (1998)
2 federal appellate · 134 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 · Gregg v. Georgia · Wainwright v. Witt · Payne v. Tennessee · Johnson 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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n officer's inference that items sought will be at the place to be searched requires no more than `a fair presumption' to be reasonable. Murphy v. State, 238 Ga. 725, 727-728 , 234 S.E.2d 911 (1977).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The trial court did not err in failing to instruct the jury that a unanimous finding on mitigating circumstances is not required, while charging the jury that its sentencing verdict had to be unanimous, since the court charged the jury that it was not necessary for the jury to find any mitigating circumstances to impose a life sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Terrell v. State“which importunes the jury to place itself in the position of the victim for any purpose must be carefully scrutinized to ensure that no infringement of the accused's fair trial rights has occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pace 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.