Commonwealth v. McAfee’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
47
cited by 47 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Richardson v. Marsh · Rock v. Arkansas · United States v. Scheffer · Commonwealth v. Latimore
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] rational [fact finder] could thus infer that the defendant had no reasonable basis to believe that he was in imminent danger of suffering death or serious bodily harm from the victim and that he had not 'availed all proper means to avoid physical combat.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Evidentiary rules of exclusion do not abridge an accused's right to present a defense so long as they are not 'arbitrary' or 'disproportionate to the purposes that they are designed to serve'”
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.