McFadden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 742 So. 2d 842 - Lyles v. State (1999), 773 So. 2d 1237 - McFadden v. State (2000)
28 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · State Ex Rel. Davis v. Parks · 143 So. 2d 484 - Williams v. State · 343 So. 2d 13 - State v. Heath
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The requirement of judicial impartiality is at the core of our system of criminal justice.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“crossed the line of ostensible neutrality and impartiality and operated to deny the defendant essential due process by depriving him of the appearance of an unbiased magistrate and an impartial trier of fact.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is permissible for a trial judge to ask questions deemed necessary to clear up uncertainties as to issues that appear to require it.”
3 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.