McKee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 403 So. 2d 349 - Ensor v. State (1981), P. H. v. State (1972)
25 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 Laskey Bros. of West Virginia, Inc. v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. · United States v. Boyer · United States v. Wall · Kugzruk v. State · Lamoureux v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that such evidence normally would be excluded because it would not tend to establish a proposition material to appellant’s guilt. However, as we held in Kugzruk v. State, 436 P.2d 962, 967 (Alaska 1968), “evidence is admissible when it tends to complete the picture or set the stage for the crime for which the defendant is being tried.” An eye witness to an event should be permitted to testify in a natural manner about what he observed. This ordinarily includes such background facts as where the witness was, how he happened to be there, and what interrelationship he may have had with other persons present at the event about which the witness. testifies. Otherwise the testimony of the witness may seem distorted, improbable, or incredible to some degree. To strip away such background evidence may well result in an artificial or false picture of what occurred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ostlund v. State · PH v. State“is susceptible of differing interpretations, only one of which is a proper statement of the law”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the jury might have believed McKee's version of the facts, yet have concluded erroneously that he could be found guilty under the terms of the statute if any portion of the knife was hidden from view.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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