State v. McMillin’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 174 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Morgan v. Illinois (1992), Deboue v. Louisiana (1990)
2 federal appellate · 174 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Wainwright v. Witt · Carnegie v. United States
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be used sparingly and does not justify a review of every trial error that has not been properly preserved for appellate review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor · State v. White“The trial court is vested with broad discretion in the admission of photographs, although that decision may be overturned if it constitutes an abuse of discretion. Missouri courts have allowed admission into evidence of photographs to corroborate the testimony of a witness to assist a jury better to understand the facts and testimony of witnesses, and to prove an element of the case. These standards apply although the photographs may be gruesome.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ervin“This Court has rejected the claim that individual voir dire is necessary in death penalty cases. Whether to conduct voir dire individually or in small groups is a matter within the control of the trial court and is not a basis for reversal of a conviction absent a showing of both an abuse of discretion and actual prejudice to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ervin
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.