McCloud v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2020 · most notably 110 Wash. 2d 32 - State v. Ng (1988), Stokeling v. United States (2019)
5 federal appellate · 54 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 Montsdoca v. State · 316 So. 2d 539 - Slater v. State · 314 So. 2d 573 - Johnson v. State · Foremost Dairies, Inc. v. Cutler · Robinson 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny degree of force suffices to convert larceny into a robbery.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“gained possession of his victim's purse not by stealth, but by exerting physical force to extract it from her grasp.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We acknowledge that the verdicts here are inconsistent, but that fact does not lead to a conclusion that the robbery sentence must be vacated. Under Section 782.04(1)(a), Florida Statutes (1975), McCloud was necessarily guilty of felony-murder. As the trial judge suggested, the jury simply may have found the felony-murder rule too harsh in this situation and reduced the penalty to the lesser-included offense of manslaughter. Since the error was in McCloud's favor, he is in no position to complain of the lesser sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dross 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.