United States v. Mackey’s Empirical Analysis
117 F.3d 24 · 1997
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably United States v. Bradshaw (2002), Curtis v. Duval (1997)
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Doerr v. Doerr · Granito v. United States · New Jersey v. New York
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[H]earsay statements by third persons ... are not admissible under [Rule 803(8)(C)] merely because they appear within public records.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“against the Government in criminal cases”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and then rather easily claim the privilege when the government seeks to cross-examine him to discredit the statement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.