McShane v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
366 F.2d 286 · 1966
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably 407 F. Supp. 451 - Turner v. American Bar Ass'n (1975), C.E. Pope Equity Trust v. United States (1987)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1654 · 8 U.S.C. § 1401 (§ 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Guaranty Trust Co of New York v. United States · Ex parte Republic of Peru · The United States v. Jonah Crosby · Berizzi Bros Co v. The Pesaro · The Navemar Compania Espanola De Navegacion Maritima Sa v. The Navemar
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While [plaintiff] may appear in propria persona in his own behalf ( 28 U.S.C. § 1654 ), that privilege is personal to him. He has no authority to appear as an attorney for others than himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“One cannot be an appellant here unless he had been a party in the court below and has taken the prescribed steps for the perfection of his appeal.”
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.