State v. McCarty’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2012
24 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 Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · State v. Odom · Modjeski & Masters, Applicant, V · United States v. McCaskill · State v. Bagley
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was error for the court to charge that the testimony was admitted to show ' that there exists in the minds of the defendants . . . the unnatural lust of the defendants in the alleged commission of the crimes charged'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“North Carolina courts have been consistently liberal in admitting evidence of similar sex offenses in trials on sexual crime charges.”
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.