State v. McNeil’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2017
22 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 Westover v. . Aetna Life Ins. Co. · State v. Boyle · Ross v. State · Acers v. United States · People v. Lopez
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It may be true that on cross-examination his [the prospective juror's] answers tended to contradict his previous statements but we believe that his very self-contradictions do not increase his fitness as a juryman."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. State“IW] e can easily conceive of many circumstances in which a given weapon could be equally deadly in many ways, regardless of the purpose for which it is mainly intended to be used.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Intention is manifested by the circumstances connected with the perpetration of the offense,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.