State v. . McNair’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 1999
20 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What the court said to them in reference to the size and appearance of the prisoner was not to be taken by them as indicating the opinion of the court as to the prisoner's age, but that they had a right to consider his size and appearance to aid them in coming to a conclusion as to his age.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“mother of the prisoner rendering it somewhat uncertain whether he was of that age, and a number of witnesses for the State placing it at about seventeen years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is for you to say whether he is under fourteen years of age or not, being, as you see him before you, grown to the stature of manhood.”
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.