McMahan v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
179 F.2d 661 · 1950
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Hurley v. Reed (1961), Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Slater (2000)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 10 U.S.C. § 1564
Relies on Ex Parte Hawk No - on Rule to Show Cause and Return · Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering · United States v. Schooner Peggy · Vandenbark v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. · United States v. Sing Tuck or King Do & Thirty-One
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a rule of law was changed after the decision in the trial court but before the decision in the Appellate Court, the decision in the Appellate Court must be according to the new law.”
1 later decision 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.