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State v. McFall’s Empirical Analysis

1960

Citation profile

74
cited by 74 later decisions
3
states following
July 2023
most recently cited

72 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably State v. Isiah (1989), State v. Pace (1969)

72 state decisions

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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 In Re Santillanes · Asplund v. Alarid · Tate v. People · Moruzzi v. Federal Life & Casualty Co. · State Ex Rel. Hannah v. Armijo

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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “`is totally free from any partiality whatsoever.'”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Fuson v. State · Mares v. State
  2. ““ * * * any person found guilty of murder in the second degree or of any degree of manslaughter shall be punished according to the verdict of the jury, although the evidence in the case shows him to be guilty of a higher degree of homicide; and no judgment shall be stayed, arrested or in any manner affected because the evidence shows or tends to show the accused guilty of a higher degree of the offense than that of which he is convicted.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Smith v. State
  3. ““This court held as long ago as State v. Burrus, supra, decided in 1934, that manslaughter is one of the four kinds of homicide, and that it is included within a charge of murder.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. La Boon

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.