355 So. 2d 1389 - McVeay v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2010
19 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 Warn v. State · 239 So. 2d 911 - Pryor v. State · 204 So. 2d 165 - Boyd v. State · 338 So. 2d 395 - Lee v. State · 185 So. 2d 667 - Roberson 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The delivery occurred at 2:30 a.m., alongside [the agent's] car, which was parked in front of the lounge. His testimony does not set forth the lighting conditions at that place, or whether or not [the defendant] could observe the object being delivered to [the agent].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“I asked Gerald Moore if he had any dope to sell, if he had any marijuana. Gerald said he did not have any with him right then, but Walter McVeay had some over at his apartment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he burden of proof never shifts from the State in a criminal case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells 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.