McGhee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Gaines v. State (2000), Pyle v. State (2000)
89 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 Danzie v. State · Travis v. State · Morgan v. State · Hood v. State · Dulaney v. State
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“• Denial of counsel at trial because he did not voluntarily and intelligently waive counsel. • Failure to suspend trial proceedings for a mental evaluation. • Ineffective assistance of counsel by standby counsel. • Failure to charge under the criminal information and to instruct the jury on the essential elements of simultaneous possession of drugs and a firearm under § 5-74-106(a). • Discovery violation by the prosecution for not disclosing its intention to introduce a vitamin and preservative. • Erroneous rulings by trial court on admissibility of evidence. • Improper closing argument by prosecutor. • Improper use of prior conviction for impeachment. • Improper use of prior conviction for enhancement of sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rowbottom v. State
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.