McElroy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Blockburger v. United States · Richardson v. State · Fisher v. State · Guyton 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Flailing to stop after an accident resulting in death is itself a very serious crime completely separate from whether the defendant caused the victim's death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a defendant has been convicted of one crime for engaging in the specified additional behavior or causing the specified additional harm”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.