State v. McCord’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2010 · most notably Green v. United States (1957), Trono v. United States (1905)
29 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . No person on trial or examination, nor wife or husband of such person, shall be required to testify except as a witness on behalf of the person on trial or examination. . . .” (R. S. 62-1420.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Woods““A new trial is a re-examination of the issue in the same court. [G. S. 1868, ch. 82, § 273; Oct. 31; R. S. 1923, § 62-1601.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Christensen 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.