McCarthy v. Arndstein’s Empirical Analysis
266 U.S. 34 · 1924
Citation profile
189 federal appellate · 48 district · 239 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 779 later decisions (81 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Gault (1967), Malloy v. Hogan (1964)
189 federal appellate · 48 district · 239 state decisions — followed in 39 states
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 Boyd v. United States · Caminetti v. United States · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Counselman v. Hitchcock · Brown v. Walker
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 779 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“applies alike to civil and criminal proceedings, wherever the answer might tend to subject to criminal responsibility him who gives it.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Section 21a, on the other hand, 2 deals specifically and solely with the adjective law — with evidence and witnesses. When the bankrupt appears before a commissioner under this section, he comes, like any other person, merely to testify. In that connection he may, like any other witness, assert the constitutional privilege; because the present statute fails to afford complete immunity from prosecution.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Coyne · In Re Ross““There is no provision [in the Bankruptcy Act] prescribing the rules by which the examination is to be governed. These are, impliedly, the general rules governing the admissibility of evidence and the competency and compellability of witnesses.” 266 U.S. at 39 , 45 S.Ct. at 17 .”
2 later decisions 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.