State v. McFall’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Duncan (1978), State v. Johnson (1965)
30 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 Beausoliel v. United States · Brown v. United States · State v. Norman · Hjermstad v. Petroleum Carriers, Inc. · State v. Williams
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where the victim is of an age to render improbable that her utterance was deliberate and its effect premeditated the utterance need not be so nearly contemporaneous with the act as in the case of an older person." State v. McFall, 75 S.D. 630 , 71 N.W.2d 299 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kiehn · State v. Percy“"Under certain external circumstances of physical shock, a stress of nervous excitement may be produced which stills the reflective faculties and removes their control, so that the utterance which then occurs is a spontaneous and sincere response to the actual sensations and perceptions already produced by the external shock."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Percy
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.