McClellan v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Gall v. Parker (2000), Thomas Clyde Bowling, Jr. v. Phillip Parker, Warden (2003)
7 federal appellate · 62 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Zant v. Stephens · Gall v. Commonwealth · Ice v. Commonwealth
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a temporary state of mind so enraged, inflamed, or disturbed as to overcome one's judgment, and to cause one to act uncontrollably from [an] impelling force of [an] extreme emotional disturbance rather than from evil or malicious purposes”
25 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gall v. Parker · Matthews v. Parker“[A]n underlying mental disease may be considered by a jury in making its determination of whether a defendant’s explanation or excuse for his alleged “extreme emotional disturbance” is reasonable under the circumstances as he believed them to be, but standing alone, evidence which tends to establish insanity or mental illness is not sufficient to establish extreme emotional disturbance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An instruction on murder need not require the jury to find that the defendant was not acting under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance unless there is something in the evidence to suggest that he was, thereby affording room for a reasonable doubt in that respect.”
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.