McClain v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably B.K.C. v. State (2003), Robinson v. State (1998)
40 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 White v. Illinois · Murphy v. Sullivan · Detroit Auto Dealers Ass'n v. Federal Trade Commission · United States v. Balfany · United States v. Newman
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“motivated to provide truthful information in order to promote diagnosis and treatment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]tatements made for purposes of medical diagnosis or treatment and describing medical history, or past or present symptoms, pain, or sensations, or the inception or general character of the cause or the external source thereof insofar as reasonably pertinent to diagnosis or treatment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]rrors in the admission of evidence are to be disregarded as harmless unless they affect the substantial rights of the party.”
2 later decisions 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.