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McClain v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Malcolm v. State · Olds v. State · Smith v. State · Booth 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “an act reflecting consciousness of guilt”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[I]t is the role of the jury to resolve conflicts in the evidence and to determine the credibility of witnesses, and the resolution of such conflicts adversely to the defendant does not render the evidence insufficient.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “a jury-instruction error is harmless when it is highly probable that the error did not contribute to the verdict.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.