McClain v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
718 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 722 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996), 665 So. 2d 852 - Eakes v. State (1995)
718 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 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot 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 722 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable and fair-minded jurors could only find the accused not guilty.”
247 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ott v. State · Townsend v. State“Only in those cases where the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that to allow it to stand would sanction an unconscionable injustice will this Court disturb it on appeal.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he jury is charged with the responsibility of weighing and considering the conflicting evidence and credibility of the witnesses and determining whose testimony should be believed.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Biggers v. State · Bishop 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.