State v. McClellan’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably State v. Parker (1993), State v. Weaverling (1999)
51 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. Lyle · State v. Sullivan · State v. Whitener · State v. Key · State v. Stokes
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is generally applied in cases involving sexual crimes, where evidence of acts prior and subsequent to the act charged in the indictment is held admissible as tending to show continued illicit intercourse between the same parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pierce“However, [when] guilt is proven by competent evidence and no rational conclusion can be reached other than the accused's guilt, a conviction will not be set aside because of insubstantial errors not affecting the result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Prather“] exception to show the continued illicit intercourse forced upon her by Appellant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pierce
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.