State v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 1990 · most notably State v. McKenzie (1980), State v. McKenzie (1978)
45 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 Stevenson v. United States · State v. Jones · People v. Barney · State v. Schnepel · State v. Calder
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * In many instances, however, the evidence is such as to show that the defendant is either guilty of the offense charged or is entitled to an acquittal. In such cases the court may not be put in error for refusing or failing to instruct as to the lower degree or the included offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Baugh
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.