McEwen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Wilson v. State (2002), Bethel v. State (2000)
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 United States v. Russell · Wright v. State · Jordan v. State · Hicks v. State · Thompson 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if, in view of this dispute, a jury could conclude that the lesser offense was committed but not the greater, then it is reversible error for a trial court not to give an instruction, when requested, on the inherently or factually included lesser offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Spann v. State · Ketcham v. State“(c) A person who kills another human being while committing or attempting to commit: (3) battery; commits involuntary manslaughter, a class C felony.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The only element distinguishing murder from involuntary manslaughter is what the defendant intended to do-batter or kill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson 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.