State v. McColgan’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2000
8 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 Stiller v. State · 25 Cal. 3d 67 - People v. Superior Court (Meyers) · McBride v. McBride · State v. Pepe · Williams 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“his county had a real problem with drug traffic and traffic in stolen property and that requiring the appellant to serve his sentence would deter others from criminal activity”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jenkins
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.