McCarty v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Pierce v. Gilchrist (2004), Duckett v. Mullin (2002)
8 federal appellate · 46 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 Bruton v. United States · Berger v. United States · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Darden v. Wainwright · Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Commission
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]uch argument was not based on evidence supporting any alleged aggravating circumstance, but was simply a statement of Mr. Macy's personal opinion as to the appropriateness of the death penalty and, as such, was clearly improper.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“I want justice, ladies and gentleman, and justice is ... that [appellant] be convicted of murder one.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“He killed that girl. He needs to pay for it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.