McDonald v. Goldstein’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2002
3 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on Landis v. North American Co. · People v. . Fielding · People Ex Rel. Woodin v. Ottaway · Matter of McDonald v. Sobel · People ex rel. Woodin v. Ottaway
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hat a judge should ever be burdened with the thought that his assignments depended on the district attorney's appraisal of his court work is unthinkable in American jurisprudence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he District Attorney for some time past has selected the judge in each case by moving indictments for trial directly to the several parts of the court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is the people's prerogative, not the District Attorney's to say who will preside over the County Court of Kings County.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.