McWilliams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
September 1983
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Logan
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who aids or abets another in the commission of a felony “shall be proceeded against and punished” as a principal. . . . Accordingly, the charge was permissible and, since the proof established that the accused was concerned in the acts charged as an offense, the verdict may stand. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barren v. State
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.