McKenna v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2021
22 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 Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Baker v. Carr · Flast v. Cohen · Hines v. Davidowitz · Caminetti 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We cannot presently conceive of any circumstances when it would be the role of the Superior Court or this Court to question [the Attorney General's] decision to represent or decline to represent a state official who is sued in connection with his or her duties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.