State v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2017
4 federal appellate · 11 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · State v. Bolton · State v. Hall
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“erred by permitting the examining pathologist to testify for the State on reply that the victim's head was resting against a hard, flat object at the time the third shot was fired.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Prather“At trial, however, [the defendant] testified the third shot was fired in rapid succession to the second shot while [the victim] was standing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Prather“contention that this testimony should have been introduced during the State's case[-]in[-]chief and was improper reply testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Prather
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.