McClain v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
508 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 509 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Austin v. State (1981), Juneby v. State (1982)
508 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. Chaney · Waters v. State · Nicholas v. State · Galaktionoff v. State · Asitonia v. State
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 509 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he sentence imposed by the trial court may be reversed only where the appellate court, after independent review of the record, 'is convinced that the sentencing court was clearly mistaken in imposing a particular sentence.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ahvik v. State · Garrison v. State“[R]ehabilitation of the offender into a noncriminal member of society, isolation of the offender from society to prevent criminal conduct during the period of confinement, deterrence of the offender himself after his release from confinement or other penological treatment, as well as deterrence of other members of the community who might possess tendencies toward criminal conduct similar to that of the offender, and community condemnation of the individual offender, or in other words, reaffirmation of societal norms for the purpose of maintaining respect for the norms themselves, (footnote omitted)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. State · Roehl 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.