McKay v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2007
24 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 Magna Oil Corp. v. Bateson · Brady v. United States · Michigan v. Ohio · Marietta Norton v. The Discipline Committee of East Tennessee State University · McGautha v. California
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe the courts that have rejected this “purchasing agent” doctrine have more accurately reflected the probable legislative intent underlying the rather expansive definition of “sale” contained in the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act. As the Illinois Supreme Court stated in People v. Shannon, 15 Ill.2d 494 , 155 N.E.2d 578, 580 (1959): “We interpret the meaning of the word ‘sale’, as defined by the act, to be much broader in scope than that usually given to it in other branches of the law. Admittedly, the defendant took the role of at least an agent, and the act specifically declares an agent in a narcotics transaction to be a seller. We are of the opinion that the definition shows a legislative intent that the act of a person whether as agent, either for the seller or the purchaser, or as a go-between in such a transaction constitutes a sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Miles“. . . [Entrapment occurs when a public law enforcement official, ... in order to obtain evidence of the commission of an offense, induces another person to commit such an offense by persuasion or inducement which would be effective to persuade an average person, other than one who is ready and willing, to commit such an offense. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gasser“Some delay between offense and formal charge is clearly justified in cases involving drug undercover agents, and appellant here has not shown that the delay in his case was oppressive or unreasonable, or that he was prejudiced either in the preparation of his defense or because of an unreliable identification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coffey 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.