State v. McNeely’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2011
20 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 White v. White · State v. Oliver · Patch v. White · Funicello v. New Jersey · State v. Higginbottom
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Q. Crystal, do you know what it means to tell the truth? A. (Witness nods head affirmatively.) Q. You do? What happens to you at home if you don’t tell the truth? A. A whipping. Q. And does that hurt when you get a whipping? A. Yes. Q. Once you get a whipping, what do you know you’re supposed to do after that? Do you know? A. (Witness shakes head negatively.) Q. But you know you get a whipping when you tell a story. Is that right? A. Yes. Q. Do you know what it means to tell a story? A. No. Q. You don’t? Do you know what it means to tell the truth? A. No. Q. You don’t know what it means to tell the truth? If I said that I had on a blue shirt, would I be telling the truth? A. (Witness shakes head negatively.) Q. I would not? What color is my shirt? A. Blue. Q. So if I had a blue shirt, then I would be telling the truth, wouldn’t I? A. (No response.) Q. Do you go to church or Sunday School? A. I go to church. Q. You learned about Jesus in the manger at church. Is that right? A. Yes. Q. Would Jesus want you to tell the truth? A. Yes. Q. Would Jesus tell you to tell a story? A. (Witness shakes head negatively.) Q. And if the judge asks you to tell the truth today, will you tell the truth? A. Yes. Q. Can you answer yes or no? If the judge wants yo.u to tell the truth today, can you tell the truth? A. No. Q. You won’t? Do you mean that you would tell the judge a story today? A. No. Q. Will you tell the truth today about what happened to you? A. (Witness nods head affirmatively.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Q: You mean if you don’t tell the truth, you’ll get punished, is that what you mean? A: Yes. Q: So you know what it means to tell the truth, is that right? A: Yes. * * * Q: You understand it is important to tell the truth? A: Yes. Q: And you are going to promise to us that you are going to tell the truth? A: Yes. Q: You’re going to keep your promise? A: Yes. Q: You know how important it is to do that, is that right? A: Yes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Q. Do you know what it means to tell the truth? A. No. Q. Are you going to say anything that didn’t happen? A. Yes.”
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.