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State v. McCotter’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
2
states following
August 2009
most recently cited

28 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably State v. Smith (1980), State v. Brown (1985)

28 state decisions

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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 Crain v. United States · William Garland v. State of Washington · State v. Conrad · State v. Rigsbee · State v. Self

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If a defendant fails to plead after the prosecutor has read the charges or otherwise fairly summarized them, the court must record the fact, and defendant must be tried as if he had entered a plea of not guilty. . . . Where there is no doubt that a defendant is fully aware of the charge against him, or is in no way prejudiced by the omission of a formal arraignment, it is not reversible error for the trial court to fail to conduct a formal arraignment proceeding.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Brown · 54 Va. App. 594 - Simmons v. Commonwealth
  2. “Today the modern trend is that “[a]rraignment may be waived by pleading not guilty or by silence, at least in all except capital cases, if the accused is fully informed as to the charge and is not otherwise prejudiced in the trial of the case by the omission of that formality.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 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.