State v. McPhail’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably Singh v. State (1929), State v. Pepoon (1911)
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.
Relationships
Relies on Sparf v. United States · Davis v. United States · Andersen v. United States · O'Brien v. Commonwealth · State v. Bailey
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The decisions are practically uniform to the effect that a defendant can only be convicted of a lesser degree or of an attempt when there is testimony to sustain such a conviction. ... A party has no constitutional right to a compromise verdict which is not supported by any testimony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ash“Upon an indictment or information for an offense consisting of different degrees, the jury may find the defendant not guilty of the degree charged in the indictment or information, and guilty of any degree inferior thereto, or of an attempt to commit the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““There was nothing in the evidence calling for an instruction on the lower grade for an assault to kill . . . and under such circumstances the court should not invite the jury to find for a lower grade than is made by the evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weisenbach 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.