McCarty v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
379 F.2d 285 · 1967
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 1987 · most notably United States v. Henry (1984), United States v. Valencia (1980)
33 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Massiah v. United States · Huggins v. Raines · Sears v. United States · Hansford v. United States · Henderson 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once on the stand McCarty had a choice: deny the acts constituting the offense or admit that he committed the acts but contend he was entrapped. Having elected to deny that he committed the acts charged he was not entitled to an instruction on entrapment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“McCarty testified that he thought a bundle of dirty clothes given to him by ... a government informer contained illicit diamonds and no marijuana and that he had no intention of dealing with marijuana. ...”
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.