McFarlin v. Benny Y.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2011
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.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 622 (§ 422 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · Reid v. Covert · Burrus · Paul v. United States · Evans v. Cornman
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The fiction of a state within a state can have no validity to prevent the state from exercising its power over the federal area within its boundaries, so long as there is no interference with the jurisdiction asserted by the Federal Government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Rozan
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.