Macklin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.2d 174 · 1969
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably United States v. Telfaire (1972), United States v. Boney (1992)
51 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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 United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Gilbert v. California · Henry v. United States · Curley 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n cases where identification is a major issue the judge should not rely on defense counsel to request so important a charge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where identity is placed in issue, the trial court is required to charge the jury on this high degree of proof. United States v. Levi, 405 F.2d 380 (4 Cir. 1968) ; Jones v. United States, 124 U.S.App.D.C. 83 , 361 F.2d 537 (1966) ; Gregory v. United States, 125 U.S.App.D.C. 140 , 369 F.2d 185 , 190-191 (1966).”
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.