People v. McNeil’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
February 1967
most recently cited
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on People v. Cherry · 157 F. Supp. 882 - United States ex rel. Farnum v. McNeill
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * an illegal arrest may properly be resisted but it does not clothe the one wrongfully detained with the right to continue indefinitely an assaultive course of conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the victim may not pursue his counterattack merely for the sake of revenge or the infliction of needless injury.”
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.