McBrain v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2026
7 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 Brecheen v. Oklahoma · Gonzales v. Pacific Greyhound Lines · 252 So. 2d 1 - Gunn Plumbing, Inc. v. Dania Bank · Higgins v. Guerin · United States v. Marino
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wlhere the language of a statute is plain and unambiguous and the meaning clear and unmistakable, there is no room for construction, and no justification exists for interpretative devices to fabricate a different meaning”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Its omittance from the second clause surely indicates the legislature's intent for the clause to apply to both felony and misdemeanor charges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnard v. State“prisoner having been sentenced on a felony charge to confinement with the Department of Corrections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnard 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.