People v. McCray’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 86 Cal. App. 4th 573 - Rufo v. Simpson (2001), Streater v. State (1999)
24 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 People v. Green · 1 Cal. 4th 324 - People v. Price · 27 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Green · 7 Cal. 4th 380 - People v. Ewoldt · 14 Cal. 4th 668 - People v. Mayfield
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The offenses with which appellant was charged also required the prosecution to prove that [the victim] was reasonably caused to be in fear for her safety by appellant’s threats or that the threats would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress. The evidence of past domestic abuse was highly relevant and probative on these issues; indeed, it is difficult to imagine how the jury could have properly assessed [the victim’s] response to appellant’s conduct without knowledge of these past incidents. ‘Appellant was not entitled to have the jury determine his guilt or innocence on a false presentation that his and the victim’s relationship ... [was] peaceful and friendly-’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Streater 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.