MacKay v. McAlexander’s Empirical Analysis
268 F.2d 35 · 1959
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 1985 · most notably Duffield v. Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. (1974), Pangburn v. Civil Aeronautics Board (1962)
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Galvan v. Press · Jay v. Boyd · Mahler v. Eby · Tutun v. United States · Johannessen 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The unfavorable opinion of a party or witness which a hearing officer or a trial judge may entertain as a result of evidence received in a prior and connected hearing involving that individual is not ‘bias’ in the invidious sense ... No . . . lack of due process was inherent in the fact that the same hearing officer presided in both proceedings.””
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.