State v. McGaha’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Wallace (2000), 53 Cal. 4th 1261 - People v. Cornett (2012)
53 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. Spencer · State v. Davis · State v. Lowry · Dade County v. Baker · State v. Hales
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion in arrest of judgment is proper when it is apparent that no judgment against the defendant could be lawfully entered because of some fatal error appearing in (1) the organization of the court, (2) the charge made against the defendant (the information, warrant or indictment), (3) the arraignment and plea, (4) the verdict, and (5) the judgment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[this 'common practice' [of adults stating their age by giving the number of birthdays celebrated], however, is based on the fiction that we grow older only at yearly intervals The truth, of course, is that we grow older a day (or less) at a time. After a child celebrates his twelfth birthday, he is no longer '12 or less,' he is 12 and more.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Christensen
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.