McDowell v. Swope’s Empirical Analysis
183 F.2d 856 · 1950
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 1980 · most notably United States v. Batimana (1980), Benson v. United States (1964)
29 federal appellate ·
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 Bozza v. United States · United States v. Daugherty · Rowley v. Welch · Cook v. United States · McKee v. Johnston
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the loose practice of imposing a general sentence is definitely to be discouraged.””
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.