State v. McClain’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2007
20 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 State v. McCardell · 24 Utah 2d 255 - State v. Schad · State v. Wulffenstein · State v. Clayton · 15 Utah 2d 313 - State v. Kazda
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We will not lightly overturn a jury verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Widdison · State v. Bolson““[W]e review the evidence and all inferences which may reasonably be drawn from it in the light most favorable to the verdict of the jury. We reverse a jury conviction for insufficient evidence only when the evidence, so viewed, is sufficiently inconclusive or inherently improbable that reasonable minds must have entertained a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime of which he was convicted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hawkins“When findings of all required elements of the crime can be reasonably made from the evidence, including the reasonable inferences that can be drawn from it, we stop our inquiry and sustain the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bolson
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.