State v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably State v. Brown (1994), Wyatt v. State (1999)
40 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 Bruton v. United States · Ohio v. Roberts · Richardson v. Marsh · Mutual Life Ins Co of New York v. Hillmon · Mann v. United States
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence that tends, in and of itself, to negate the defendant's guilt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Bruton has always required trial judges to answer the question whether a particular confession is or is not 'powerfully incriminating' on a case-by-case basis; they should follow the same analysis whether or not the defendant is actually named by his or her codefendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pease v. State“[C]onjecture based on the relative strength of competing theories of guilt can be no substitute for certainty when the double jeopardy clause is implicated. Any ambiguity must be resolved in favor of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith 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.