McCall v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2018
15 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 National Labor Relations Board v. Burns International Security Services, Inc. · Lee v. County Ct. of Erie County · Ingles v. People · Haskett v. State · Adams 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our dissatisfaction with the Lee determination is that if a defendant is, in fact, insane or incompetent to stand trial, such an infirmity may just as likely extend to his seemingly irrational refusal to cooperate as to the anti-social conduct that prompted the criminal charges. The problem obviously has no perfect solution, but since the issue of insanity becomes the most vital issue, if not the only one, in such a case and must ultimately be determined by the jury, it seems that the relevant competent evi dence should not be precluded, for whatever reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Berryman“Id. at 1221. On the other hand, the court concluded that the State would have the right to offer evidence of the defendant's refusal to cooperate with the court-appointed experts in order to impeach his insanity defense. Id. The court also stated that an instruction that such evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Berryman“could be considered upon the issue of the defendant's sanity or insanity”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Berryman
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.