McCay v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 1984
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Nichols v. State · Espey v. State · Hines v. State · 53 Ala. App. 504 - Creel v. State · 39 Ala. App. 638 - Sumeral 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ircumstantial evidence is entitled to the same weight that direct evidence is entitled to provided it points to the guilt of the accused.”
2 later decisions 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.