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McLane v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1848

Citation profile

36
cited by 36 later decisions
9
states following
August 2024
most recently cited

1 district · 35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Kardy v. SHOOK, J. (1965), Jenkins v. State (2004)

1 district · 35 state decisions

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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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “incumbent on the prosecuting officer, to have alleged in the indictment the particular exception on which he relied to prevent the operation of the Statute [of limitations], so that it might affirmatively appear that the defendant was liable under the law, to be ... prepared at the trial, to traverse all the material allegations made by the State against him.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the indictment must not only show to the court upon its face, that a public law of the State has been violated, but it should also appear, that the defendant has been indicted therefor, in the manner, and within the time, prescribed by the laws of the land,”
    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.