McCoy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Flowers v. State (2005), Smith v. State (2003)
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 McCoy 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tjhis court has consistendy recognized that a trial court is required to give a model instruction unless it finds that the instruction does not accurately state the law. . . . Thus, our holdings have created a presumption that the model instruction is a correct statement of the law. As such, any party who wishes to challenge the accuracy of a model instruction, be it the State or a defendant, must rebut the presumption of correctness. (Emphasis in the original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sola
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.