State v. McIlvoy’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2012 · most notably Pulley v. Harris (1984), State v. Herring (2002)
55 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 Beck v. Alabama · State v. Newlon · State v. Turner · State v. Royal · State v. Mercer
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If you find and believe from the evidence that defendant was convicted of the offenses of attempted robbery, stealing and burglary you may consider that evidence for the sole purpose of deciding the believability of the Defendant and the weight to be given to his testimony and for no other purpose. You must not consider such previous convictions as any evidence that the Defendant is guilty of any offense for which he is now on trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morris“... [Tjhere can be no reversible error in the giving of an instruction on a lesser grade of an offense when the jury has found the defendant guilty of a higher grade of that offense, unless an error exists in the former instruction which prevents the jury from convicting on the lesser grade.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reasonover“whether the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime and the defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. LaRette
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.