McGowan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably Owen v. State (1979), Owen v. State (1978)
36 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 Thompson v. City of Louisville · Collins v. State · Young v. State · Watson v. State · Goldstine 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person who being over sixteen (16) years of age, commits or attempts to commit any felony while armed with any dangerous weapon . . . ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Owen v. State · Thompson v. State““[T]he sufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction may be raised for the first time on appeal in criminal cases.” McGowan v. State (1977) 267 Ind. 16 , 366 N.E.2d 1164 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scalf 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.