McCoy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Matthew Armstrong v. State of Arkansas (2020), Isom v. State (2004)
2 federal appellate · 82 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 Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · Earl v. State · Hill v. State · Caton v. State · Kemp 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) A defendant may be convicted of one offense included in another offense with which he is charged. An offense is so included if: (1) It is established by proof of the same or less than all the elements required to establish the commission of the offense charged; or (2) It consists of an attempt to commit the offense charged or to commit an offense otherwise included within it; or (3) It differs from the offense charged only in the respect that a less serious injury or risk of injury to the same person, property, or public interest or a lesser kind of culpable mental state suffices to establish its commission.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“culpable mental state ... which requires deliberate conduct with a knowledge or awareness that one's actions are practically certain to bring about the prohibited result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. State · Rongey 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.