McKinney v. Rees’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 1378 · 1993
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably 26 Cal. 4th 81 - People v. Catlin (2001), 21 Cal. 4th 903 - People v. Falsetta (1999)
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Kotteakos v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Doyle v. Ohio
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nly if there are no permissible inferences the jury may draw from the evidence can its admission violate due process.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Evidence is considered irrelevant if it fails to make any fact of consequence more or less probable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“erroneously admitted evidence was 'of such quality as necessarily prevents a fair trial.'”
2 later decisions 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.