State v. McNeill’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 299 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 309 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Conway (2006), State v. Yarbrough (2002)
3 federal appellate · 299 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 Strickland v. Washington · State v. Bradley · Taylor v. Louisiana · Payne v. Tennessee · Duren v. Missouri
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 309 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is within the trial court's discretion to determine what evidence is admissible as proper rebuttal.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hile the children could not answer every question posed, the transcript indicates they were in fact able to receive, recollect, and communicate impressions of fact, and appreciate the responsibility to be truthful”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[d]ebatable trial tactics do not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.”
4 later decisions 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.