State v. McNicol’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1998
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 14 Cal. 3d 533 - People v. Martinez · 22 Utah 2d 118 - Alires v. Turner · State v. Farni · 27 Utah 2d 182 - Andreason v. Turner
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.
“[C]ourts will not second guess [the] `legitimate exercise of judgment as to trial tactics or strategy.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the right of the accused to have counsel is not satisfied by a sham or pretense of an appearance in the record by an attorney who manifests no real concern about the interests of the accused. He is entitled to the assistance of a competent member of the Bar, who shows a willing-nesss to identify himself with the interests of the accused and present such defenses as are available under the law and consistent with the ethics of the profession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Crestani
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.