McElyea v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2025
4 federal appellate · 8 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 Moore v. State · Jarrett v. State · Porter v. State · Becker v. State · White 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from the taking of property to the threat of physical harm to the victim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) A person commits robbery if, with the purpose of committing a felony or misdemeanor theft or resisting apprehension immediately thereafter, he employs or threatens to immediately employ physical force upon another.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“What makes theft robbery is the use of force.”
2 later decisions 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.