McGuire v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
273 U.S. 95 · 1927
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 21 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 211 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2014 · most notably Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1971), Massiah v. United States (1964)
64 federal appellate · 21 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Old Dominion Warehouse, Inc. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Weeks v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Agnello v. United States · Burdeau v. McDowell · Gouled 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 211 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A criminal prosecution is more than a game in which the government may be checkmated and the game lost merely because its officers have not played according to rule.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nor does the unlawful distraint or attachment of certain articles make unlawful the seizure of property otherwise rightfully taken at the same time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gordon
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.