McCollough v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1995
11 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 4 Okla. Crim. 309 - Steen v. State · 84 Okla. Crim. 118 - Ex Parte Conway · 72 Okla. Crim. 165 - Glenn v. State · 86 Okla. Crim. 97 - Bristow v. State · 88 Okla. Crim. 291 - Weeks 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`We feel that the trial court should exercise this discretion with the utmost precaution and to ascertain within reasonable means that the county attorney is acting in good faith. This rule has not been adopted to permit the county attorney to lay behind the log and spring new witnesses on the day of trial, but to place a liberal construction upon the statutes as to meet the ends of justice. The failure to endorse witnesses before trial must be by virtue of inadvertence and in good faith, and in any event, permitted only where the defendant's rights are not prejudiced by said endorsement.' ..."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State“The district attorney shall subscribe his name to informations filed in the district court and endorse thereon the names and last-known addresses of all the witnesses known to him at the time of filing the same, if intended to be called by him at a preliminary examination or at trial. Thereafter, he shall also endorse thereon the names and last-known addresses of such other witnesses as may afterwards become known to him, if they are intended to be called as witnesses at a preliminary examination or at trial, at such time as the court may by rule prescribe....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State“In any event a late endorsement of a material witness can only be cured by a continuance affording defendant sufficient time to meet the surprise testimony and obtain rebuttal evidence if available. ... In the instant case the endorsement of a material witness the day before the trial without granting defendant’s request for a continuance was prejudicial to defendant’s rights and constituted reversible error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson 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.