McNally v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
293 U.S. 131 · 1934
Citation profile
820 federal appellate · 78 district · 241 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,613 later decisions (74 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Fay v. Noia (1963), Preiser v. Rodriguez (1973)
820 federal appellate · 78 district · 241 state decisions — followed in 33 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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
reviewedMcNally v. Hill (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Ex parte Siebold · Morgan v. Devine · Crowley v. Christensen
Cited together with Peyton v. Rowe · Jones v. Cunningham · Fay v. Noia · United States v. Hayman · Darr v. Burford
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 1,613 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Wherever the issue has been presented, this Court has consistently refused to review, upon habeas corpus, questions which do not concern the lawfulness of the detention.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The petitioner asks here only a ruling which will establish his eligibility for parole, because of the invalidity of the sentence on the third count. The ruling sought is such as might be obtained in a proceeding brought to mandamus the parole board to entertain his petition for parole, if the sentence on the third count were void for want of jurisdiction of the court to pronounce it. This use of habeas corpus is unauthorized by the statutes of the United States * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is the most usual remedy by which a man is restored to his liberty if he hath by law been deprived of it.”
1 later decision 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.