McCormick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably 2006 OK CR 19 - Hogan v. State (2006), Bland v. Sirmons (2006)
4 federal appellate · 37 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · United States v. Lofton · McNeil v. North Carolina · Ashinsky 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only consideration to be made is whether the pictures are unnecessarily hideous, such that the impact on the jury can be said to be unfair”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. State · Neill v. State“Defendant was in a heat of passion and said act was perpetrated without a design to effect death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a deliberate intention to take away the life of a haman being.”
2 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.