McLaughlin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Wilks v. State (2002), Burton v. State (2002)
27 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 Berger v. United States · United States v. Young · State v. Sorrentino · Schmunk v. State · Browder 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““First, the record must clearly show what occurred at the trial without resort to speculation. Second, the existence of a clear and unequivocal rule of law must have been violated in an obvious way. And finally, this violation must have adversely affected some substantial right of the accused.” Id. at 895 ; see also McLaughlin v. State, 780 P.2d 964, 971 (Wyo.1989).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Dreiman v. State · Tennant v. State“" Closing arguments are meant to be just that, arguments premised upon the evidence already submitted to the jury. Prosecutors are no more limited in their closing than defense counsel. They may review the evidence and suggest to the jury inferences based thereon. The purpose of closing arguments is to allow counsel to offer ways of viewing the significance of the evidence. However, there are limits, not only on prosecutors, but on all attorneys" " Schmunk v. State, 714 P.2d 724, 742 (Wyo.1986) (quoting Browder v. State, 639 P.2d 889, 893 (Wyo.1982) (emphasis in original)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilks v. State“In presenting a closing argument, the prosecutor is entitled to reflect upon the evidence and to draw reasonable inferences from that evidence in order to assist the jury in its function. The purpose of closing argument is to give both the prosecution and defense counsel the opportunity to explain the significance of the evidence and how it should be viewed. * * * [T]he scope of permissible argument, as well as the injury caused by misconduct, are best determined by the trial judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bland 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.