State v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. Bondurant (1983), State v. Hill (1984)
6 federal appellate · 69 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 Katz v. United States · Schmerber v. State of California · Kirby v. Illinois · United States v. Dionisio · Davis v. Mississippi
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[I]n order for an appellant to assert a constitutional or statutory right on appeal, the right must have been asserted and the issue raised before the trial court.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`only when the defendant finds himself confronted with the prosecutorial resources of the state arrayed against him and [is] immersed in the complexities of a formal criminal prosecution [is] the sixth amendment right to counsel [ ] triggered as a guarantee.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]vidence that a crime was committed by another must point unerringly to the guilt of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.