McClanahan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
230 F.2d 919 · 1956
Citation profile
105 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably United States v. Woodall (1970), D. H. Roe and Stratoray Oil, Inc. v. United States (1961)
105 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Laskey Bros. of West Virginia, Inc. v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. · Todorow v. United States · Hargrove v. United States · Ford 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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'. . . the question of equal availability of a witness not called is largely a question of fact, and various courts have regarded all manner of circumstances as bearing upon the matter.' Jones, Commentaries on Evidence, Vol. I, pp. 169-170, Sec. 98.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * an accessory is liable for any criminal act which in the ordinary course of things was the natural or probable consequence of the crime that he advised or commanded, although such consequence may not have been intended by him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A conviction may rest upon the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Craig v. Singletary
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.