People v. McDavis’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2022
2 federal appellate · 9 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here can be no attempt to commit a crime that does not involve a specific intent, such as manslaughter in the second degree, a crime predicated upon a reckless act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“One may harbor, at the same time, both an intent to cause serious physical injury and an intent to cause death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Sanchez
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.