McCray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably Alabama v. Michael Herman Bozeman (2001), State v. Lucas (2001)
37 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Costello v. United States · Thiel v. Southern Pacific Co. · Spring Meadows Apartment Complex Ltd. Partnership v. Stallings · Behrens v. Pelletier
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Alabama Supreme Court has held that a conviction based upon a plea of nolo contendere cannot be used in Alabama to enhance punishment under the Habitual Felony Offender Act. Ex parte Jenkins , 586 So.2d 176 , 177 (Ala. 1991). See also, e.g., Kain v. State , 700 So.2d 355 , 356 (Ala.Cr.App. 1996); McHarris v. State , 678 So.2d 259 , 260 (Ala.Cr.App. 1996)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Payne v. State“even in the absence of a finding of a prima facie case by the trial court, if the prosecutor offers explanations for the state's peremptory challenges, this court will review those explanations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in Alabama, a race-neutral reason ... will not 'cancel out' a race-based reason”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.