People v. McCurdy’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
56
cited by 56 later decisions
1
states following
January 2022
most recently cited
56 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Chapman v. State of California · Blakely v. Washington · Edwards v. Arizona
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficient evidence for the jury to find defendant committed both sets of acts, and sufficient similarities to demonstrate that in each instance the perpetrator acted with the same intent or motive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it would not be speculative to infer that, because he had committed lewd acts against his sister when she was a child, he abducted Piceno with the intent to commit a lewd act against her”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he least degree of similarity (between the uncharged act and the charged offense) is required in order to prove intent.”
1 later decision 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.