State v. May’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
August 2017
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Penry v. Lynaugh · New Jersey v. New York · McKoy v. North Carolina · Nebraska v. Wyoming · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the evidence is proffered to show that someone other than the defendant committed the crime charged, admission of the evidence must do more than create mere conjecture of another's guilt in order to be relevant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Such evidence must (1) point directly to the guilt of some specific person, and (2) be inconsistent with the defendant's guilt.”
1 later decision 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.