MacKey v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
539 federal appellate · 83 district · 455 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,600 later decisions (167 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), Williams v. Taylor (2000)
539 federal appellate · 83 district · 455 state decisions — followed in 41 states
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Appellate journey
reviewedMackey v. United States (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1084 · 26 U.S.C. § 4401 · 26 U.S.C. § 6011 (Interest Equalization Tax Extension Act of 1967) · 26 U.S.C. § 7201 · 26 U.S.C. § 7203 · 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Gideon v. Wainwright · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Mapp v. Ohio · Chimel v. California
Cited together with Teague v. Lane · Linkletter v. Walker · Desist v. United States · Penry v. Lynaugh · Griffith v. Kentucky
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 1,600 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.”
165 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“* * * Linkletter became almost as difficult to follow as the tracks of a beast of prey in search of his intended victim.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Witt v. State · Yates v. Aiken““There is no indication in Marchetti or Grosso that one of the considerations which moved the Court to hold that the Congress could not constitutionally compel citizens to register as gamblers and file related tax returns was the probable unreliability of such statements once given. Petitioner has not advanced any objective considerations suggesting such unreliability. The wagering tax returns introduced in evidence at his trial have none of the characteristics, and hence none of the potential unreliability, of coerced confessions produced by ‘overt and obvious coercion.’ Johnson [v. New Jersey], 384 U.S. [719], at 730, 86 S.Ct. [1772], at 1779 [ 16 L.Ed.2d 882 ]. Nor does Mackey suggest that his returns — made under oath — were inac curate in any respect. Thus, a gambling excise tax return, like physical evidence seized in violation of a new interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, is concededly relevant and probative even though obtained by the Government through means since defined by this Court as constitutionally objectionable. As in Desist [Desist v. United States, 394 U.S. 244 , 89 S.Ct. 1030 , 22 L.Ed.2d 248 ], Elkanich [Elk-anich v. United States, 401 U.S. 646 , 91 S.Ct. 1148 , 28 L.Ed.2d 388 ], and Williams [Williams v. United States, 401 U.S. 646 , 91 S.Ct. 1148 , 28 L.Ed. 2d 388 ], the result here should be that a pre-Marchetti trial in which the Government employed such evidence is not set aside through retroactive application of the new constitutional principle.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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