McGuire v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
152 F.2d 577 · 1945
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 1996 · most notably United States v. Welch (1996), United States v. Boyd (1979)
27 federal appellate · 5 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 18 U.S.C. § 550
Relies on Best v. District of Columbia · Ayers v. United States · La Page v. United States · Stuthman v. United States · Wayne v. United States
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no question of the power of a trial court to direct a verdict upon the opening statement of counsel. (Citing Best v. District of Columbia, supra.) But it is equally well established by the authorities that this power should be exercised only when it clearly and affirmatively appears from the opening statement that the charge against the defendant cannot be sustained under any view of the evidence consistent with the statement. Stuthman v. United States, 8 Cir. [1933], 67 F.2d 521 , 523.” (Emphasis supplied)”
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.