State v. McClain’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1967
8 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. Cain · Cheever v. Congdon · Hill v. Eldridge
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At this day of general intelligence, I think it is not improper, in a case like this, to allow the minor to testify as to his age. It is perhaps true that the evidence of the minor may not be as satisfactory as to the fact as the evidence of his father or mother, or some other person who was present at his birth; still his statement should be received, and permitted to go to the jury as evidence, to have such weight as it is entitled to under the circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dutzler 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.