McMahon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2001 · most notably Wicker v. State (1984), Hawkins v. State (1983)
67 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Bruton v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Harrington v. California · 66 Cal. 2d 808 - People v. Varnum
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Have you seen any remorse? Have you seen any remorse on the part of the defendants?””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State · Thomas v. State“In reviewing the prosecutor's argument as a whole, moreover, we do not agree that it constituted an improper comment on the appellants' failure to testify. In Nowlin v. State, 507 S.W.2d 534 (Tex.Cr. App.1974), this Court stated that before a prosecutor's argument may be so construed the language used must be viewed from the jury's standpoint and the implication that the language refers to the defendant's failure to testify must be a necessary one. It is not sufficient that the language might be construed as an implied or indirect allusion. If the prosecutor's remarks may be reasonably construed as referring to the defendant's failure to present evidence through a witness other than himself, reversal is not required. (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State“"He's shown no reason to me, and I don't think he's shown you any reason why he shouldn't be put away"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hawkins 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.