McCrone v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
307 U.S. 61 · 1939
Citation profile
128 federal appellate · 18 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 301 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2013 · most notably United States v. United Mine Workers of America (1947), Shillitani v. United States (1966)
128 federal appellate · 18 district · 50 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
reviewedMcCrone v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Helvering v. Mitchell · Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson · Helvering v. Mitchell · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson
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 301 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * (W)hen the punishment is wholly remedial, serves only the purposes of the complainant, and is not intended as a deterrent to offenses against the public, * * *”
5 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.