McCray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably 547 So. 2d 321 - Robinson v. State (1989), Butler v. State (1992)
27 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(13) Weapon means any dirk, metallic knuckles, slungshot, billie, tear gas gun, chemical weapon or device, or any other deadly weapon except a firearm or a common pocket knife.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a cigarette lighter might be so classified if, by its use or threatened use, death or great bodily harm is likely to be produced... .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.