State v. McFerran’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently September 2002 · most notably State v. Smith (1979), State v. Day (1978)
89 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 Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · State v. Williams · State v. Rowell · State v. Pace · State v. Gutierrez
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is within the province of the jury to imply malice in a case where a killing with a deadly weapon is established. “You may imply malice in this case if you find beyond a reasonable doubt that the killing was perpetrated by means of a deadly weapon.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Marquez · State v. Duran
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.