McCray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1974
13 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 Pinder v. State · State v. Carpio · Hall v. State · Brown 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(T)hen you may find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, or murder in the second degree, or manslaughter, as you may further find beyond a reasonable doubt if the evidence warrants it under these instructions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown 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.