McSurely Et Al. v. Ratliff’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2007 · most notably Alan McSurely and Margaret McSurely v. John J. McClellan (1976), McSurely v. McClellan (1985)
20 federal appellate · 1 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to the extent that the seized documents shall remain in custody,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.