Megown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1998
6 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 84 Okla. Crim. 97 - Sadler v. State · 117 Cal. App. 2d 206 - People v. Deacon · 92 Okla. Crim. 70 - Williams v. State · 72 Okla. Crim. 273 - Orville Little v. State · 67 Okla. Crim. 422 - Jackson 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Trial courts should not in any manner, either through their actions or words, indicate to the jury their opinion upon the merits of the case being tried before them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. State
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.