State v. McKenna’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably State v. Curcio (1983), State v. O'Neill (1986)
25 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1342 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Benton v. Maryland · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Oyler v. Boles · Oregon v. Kennedy
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The manifest purpose of the mail fraud statute is the protection of the post office from use in the execution of frauds.”
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.