State v. McGhee’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gault · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · McKeiver v. Pennsylvania
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The determination to admit or to refuse admission into evidence of the photographs lies initially in the discretion of the trial court, and we will not reverse except when an abuse of discretion is shown, as where the evidence is cleai'ly irrelevant or prejudicial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hunt · State v. Aswegan
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.