State v. McGettrick’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Schlee (2008), State v. Salazar (1997)
60 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Commonwealth v. Walker · State v. Jones · Wetzel v. Ohio · 53 Ohio App. 2d 101 - State v. Blake · Edwards v. Edwards
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cloaked with the presumption of innocence”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Webb · State v. Makaila“If a party dies after a notice of appeal is filed or while a proceeding is otherwise pending in Ae court of appeals, Ae personal representative of Ae deceased party may be substituted as a party on motion filed by the representative or by any party, with Ae clerk of Ae court of appeals ... [i]f the deceased party has no representative, any party may suggest Ae deaA on Ae record and proceedings shall be had as Ae court of appeals may direct....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * While death moots the sentence, renders impossible a new trial, and abates any fine imposed, the matter of costs remains. The state and the defendant (not to mention his family) have endured the strain, the tribulation and the expense of trial and appeal. Oftentimes rights other than those of an individual defendant are involved. The right to inherit, or to take by will or otherwise, may be affected.”
2 later decisions 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.