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← 85 N.Y.2d 985 - People v. McCowan

People v. McCowan’s Empirical Analysis

1995

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
June 2019
most recently cited

3 federal appellate ·

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “notice is adequate to support a criminal prosecution stemming from violation of an order if given orally in court ,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “either orally or in writing, [of] the contents of the order and the conduct it prohibit[ed]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.