United States v. McClain’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably United States v. Fernandez (1987), United States v. Smith (1988)
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 10 U.S.C. § 825 · 10 U.S.C. § 837 · 10 U.S.C. § 839 · 10 U.S.C. § 851 · 10 U.S.C. § 920
Relies on Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Washington v. Davis · Taylor v. Louisiana · Duren v. Missouri · Castaneda v. Partida
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Perhaps the application of the standards set forth in Article 25(d)(2) leads naturally to the selection of court members who are more likely to impose heavier punishments than would be true if different standards were used or no standards at all. Perhaps, for example, old, educated court members are harsher than young, ignorant court members. However, we need not speculate on such matters ... because we are concerned with intent, rather than impact. That intent ... was incompatible with Article 25(d)(2), and implementation of that intent in selecting the court members violated the Code.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“only discussions reasonably designed to accomplish such improvements should take place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.