McCracken v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably Williams v. State (2001), Valdez v. State (1995)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Enmund v. Florida · Tison v. Arizona · McKoy v. North Carolina · Johnson v. Oklahoma
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I will instruct you again to look at your instructions. The law in OHahoma provides a person convicted of Murder in the First Degree is punishable by death, by life without parole or life. You may retire and deliberate further.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The evidence shows that both victims were shot in the head and left to languish. Victim Sheets was semi-conscious and vomiting on himself when the police arrived at the scene. McDaniels was still alive and able to tell the police her name when they found her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“instruction. Appellant relies on Enmund v. Florida, . . . and Tison v. Arizona, . . ., where the Supreme Court recognized that one who is convicted of first degree murder through the felony murder doctrine must be accorded an”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.