McCary v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1991
4 federal appellate · 14 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 Mason v. State · Johnson v. State · 29 Ala. App. 349 - Wilkins v. State · Daniels v. State · Robinson 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Exceptions to the rule that prior offenses by an accused are inadmissible have been developed, where such offenses are relevant, and material , on the question of knowledge, intent, plan or design, motive, identity, and inseparable crimes as part of the res gestae of the offense charged. McMurtrey v. State, supra [ 37 Ala.App. 656 , 74 So.2d 528 ] ; Mason v. State, supra [ 259 Ala. 438 , 66 So.2d 557 ].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“care should always be taken not to convict an accused of one alleged crime because he [is] guilty of another”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thigpen v. Thigpen
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.