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McCarthy v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

29 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Gaddis v. State · Springer v. United States · Lannan 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[w]hen the age of a victim constitutes a material element of the crime,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Thompson v. State · Christopher D. McCoy v. State of Indiana
  2. “The decision to enhance a presumptive sentence or to impose consecutive sentences for multiple offenses is generally within the trial court's discretion.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hildebrandt v. State · Haggard v. State
  3. “the trial court may properly consider the particularized cireumstances of the factual elements as aggravating factors.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Christopher D. McCoy v. State of Indiana · Johnson 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.