McCracken v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2015
11 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 Griffin v. California · Knowles v. United States · Cheff v. Schnackenberg · Davis v. United States · Vaca v. Sipes
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he test is whether the language used was manifestly intended or was of such character that the jury would naturally and necessarily take it to be a comment on the failure of the accused to testify. (Footnote omitted.) [31]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The Fifth Amendment ... forbids either comment by the prosecution on the accused's silence or instructions by the court that such silence is evidence of guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goldsbury v. State“It is concededly improper and reversible error to comment on the failure of a defendant to testify in his own behalf....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goldsbury 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.