State v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably 108 Wash. 2d 458 - State v. McAlpin (1987), State v. Maurstad (2007)
29 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 State v. Evans · State v. Schmit · State v. Hansen · State v. Southern · State v. Boldra
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there may be cases in which the defendant's lack of remorse could relate back and be considered as evidence bearing on a determination of the cruelty or seriousness of the conduct on which the conviction was based.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“commission policy and official commission interpretation”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Maurstad“once a conviction has decayed, it is always decayed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Munger v. Erickson
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.