McKnight v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
February 1995
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Norvell v. State of Illinois · State v. Sisco · Meller v. Missouri · Polly 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the State shows that the original records of a criminal proceeding cannot be produced notwithstanding its good faith effort to make and preserve those records, a 'postconviction court should allow the State to offer substitute proof of what occurred in those proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Schulz
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.