People v. McCartney’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Watkins (1978), United States v. Ismaili (1987)
4 federal appellate · 31 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has been termed `drastic' because it represents an incursion upon the liberty of a prospective witness, who, although accused of no crime or wrongdoing, is required to attend a criminal proceeding in another State”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A request that the Trial Judge issue a certificate pursuant to [the statute] seeking the compulsory attendance of a witness in another state is addressed to the discretion of the trial judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Sanderson“... in the absence of an abuse of discretion we may not overturn [the trial judge's] determination of nonmateriality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Sanderson
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.