McNulty v. Curry’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 126 Ohio App. 3d 95 - State v. Lloyd (1998), Prideaux v. State Dept. of Public Safety (1976)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 United States v. Wade · Schmerber v. State of California · Bell v. Burson · Boykin v. Alabama · Gideon v. Cochran
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]fter the arrest, detention, or any other taking into custody of a person ... such person shall be permitted forthwith facilities to communicate with an attorney at law of his choice who is entitled to practice in the courts of this state ...”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stover · Copelin v. State““***was given practically free access to a telephone; that he was not restricted on the number of calls made; that upon reaching his friend Short, he spoke with him for over 10 minutes, and that Short eventually dispatched appellant’s lawyer to his aid; and that at no time and in no way did the police officers attempt to interfere or abbreviate appellant’s consultation with his attorney when he finally arrived.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where a person has been arrested for driving while under the influence of alcohol and is requested by a police officer to submit to a chemical test of his or her breath but he or she refuses to take the test * * * [the trier of fact] * * * may * * * consider this evidence * * * in deciding whether the defendant was under the influence of alcohol”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.