State v. McCraw’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2020
16 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 Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Carafas v. J · Fiswick v. United States · Parker v. Ellis · Parton 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 1. ... A prisoner in custody under sentence of this State must petition for post-conviction relief under this chapter within three (3) years of the date of the final action of the highest state appellate court to which an appeal is taken or consideration of such petition shall be barred. Section 2. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1986 ... and shall apply to any petition filed on or after such date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Masucci
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.