Texas v. McCullough’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
193 federal appellate · 12 district · 549 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 879 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Alabama v. Smith (1989), State v. Rahab (Slip Opinion) (2017)
193 federal appellate · 12 district · 549 state decisions — followed in 44 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 Bruton v. United States · United States v. Leon · North Carolina v. Pearce · Baker v. Carr · Stone v. Powell
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 879 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do[es] not apply in every case where a convicted defendant receives a higher sentence on retrial.”
82 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'objective information . . . justifying the increased sentence.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hubbel · KELLEY v. STATE“Pearce itself apparently involved different judges presiding over the two trials,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.