McCoy v. Blakely’s Empirical Analysis
217 F.2d 227 · 1954
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Janzen v. Goos (1962), Ray v. United States (1966)
33 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 Gunning v. Cooley · Mecom v. Fitzsimmons Drilling Co. · Troxell v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Clement v. Packer · Rudd v. United States
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even if, as contended by the defendant, the appointment of Blakely was for the sole purpose of creating .diversity of citizenship in order to invoke the jurisdiction of the Federal Court, that fact, without more, would not establish the alleged violation of the relied-upon statute [§ 1359].” 217 F.2d at 230 . (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A district eoux-t shall not have jurisdiction of a civil action in which any party, by assignment or otherwise, has been improperly or collu-sively made or joined to invoke the jux-isdiction of such court.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under the rule, as stated and applied by the Supreme Court, it seems that, when a judge expresses his opinion as to the facts to the jury, making it clear that it is nothing but his opinion, and not binding upon them in any way, and that it is their duty and responsibility to determine all of the facts, he is within his rights, and that he is only subject to reversal when his comments upon the evidence or opinions as to the facts amount to partisan argument or advocacy, or constitute an appeal to passion or prejudice.”
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.