McNeal v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Foster v. State (1994), 645 So. 2d 829 - Chase v. State (1994)
98 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 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · McFee v. State · 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State · Johnson v. State · 471 So. 2d 332 - Cabello 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the proof is absolute or in doubt as to identity of the guilty party, [and] (2) whether the photos are necessary evidence or simply a ploy on the part of the prosecutor to arouse the passion and prejudice of the jury.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“[P]hotographs which are gruesome or inflammatory and lack an evidentiary purpose are always inadmissible as evidence.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Blue v. State · Sitton v. State“full-color, close-up view of the [victim's] decomposed, maggot-infested skull.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.