State v. McCague’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 2005
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Lambert v. People of the State of California · Liparota v. United States · United States v. Shabani
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Legislature has the power to impose criminal liability regardless of a defendant's motive or state of mind and has done so here in the effort to combat the scourge of the manufacturing, distribution and use of controlled dangerous substances.... [A]ssertions of good motive or humanitarian concern ... do not vitiate a [statute] specifying actions constituting criminal conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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