State v. McGhee’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 511 So. 2d 1214 - State v. Odom (1987), 506 So. 2d 1265 - State v. Harden (1987)
32 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 State v. Sepulvado · 398 So. 2d 1049 - State v. Jones · 424 So. 2d 1009 - State v. Quebedeaux · 441 So. 2d 719 - State v. Soco · 369 So. 2d 118 - State v. Cox
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Because the function of the consecutive sentence should be similar to the sentence imposed on habitual or dangerous offenders, sentences arising from a single course of conduct should be concurrent rather than consecutive, absent a showing that the offender poses an unusual risk to the safety of the public." (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. White
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.