State v. McVay’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably State v. Covington (1976), State v. Henderson (1974)
62 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 State v. Blackwell · State v. McVay · State v. McKissick · State v. Partlow · State v. Roberts
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . [T]he court may properly instruct the jury that the trial of the cause involved heavy expense to the county, and that it was the duty of the jury to continue its deliberations and attempt to reach an agreement, but that the court was not attempting to force an agreement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams · State v. Brown
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.