McNabb v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
318 U.S. 332 · 1943
Citation profile
2,195 federal appellate · 232 district · 1,149 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,532 later decisions (245 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Chapman v. State of California (1967)
2,195 federal appellate · 232 district · 1,149 state decisions — followed in 49 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
reviewedMcNabb v. United States (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 593 · 18 U.S.C. § 595
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Nardone v. United States · Agnello v. United States
Cited together with Mallory v. United States · Upshaw v. United States · United States v. Mitchell · United States v. Carignan · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera
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 4,532 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A democratic society, in which respect for the dignity of all men is central, naturally guards against the misuse of the law enforcement process. Zeal in tracking down crime is not in itself an assurance of soberness of judgment. Disinterestedness in law enforcement does not alone prevent disregard of cherished liberties. Experience has therefore counseled that safeguards must be provided against the dangers of the overzealous as well as the despotic. The awful instruments of the criminal law cannot be entrusted to a single functionary. The complicated process of criminal justice is therefore divided into different parts, responsibility for which is separately vested in the various participants upon whom the criminal law relies for its vindication.”
60 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Judicial supervision of the administration of criminal justice in the federal courts implies the duty of establishing and maintaining civilized standards of procedure and evidence.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The history of liberty has largely been the history of observance of procedural safeguards.”
14 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.