McKeever v. Gerard’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2008
7 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 Boykin v. Alabama · State v. Cullison · Cline v. United States · Mallory v. Paradise · Hohl v. Board of Education of Poweshiek County
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe the right to raise, after a trial, alleged trial court errors through a certiorari action is one of those rights, like an appeal, which is waived by an election for a deferred judgment. A defendant who elects to have the case even-, tually treated as if there was no conviction cannot simultaneously attack the case as if there had been one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stessman“`where the lower court's jurisdiction or the legality of its acts is challenged on exclusively law or constitutional issues.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“certiorari review of court action is ordinarily used prior to final disposition.”
1 later decision 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.