McClain v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
417 F.2d 489 · 1969
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably 3 Cal. 3d 404 - In Re Johnson (1970), Howard v. United States (1970)
35 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Leary v. United States · United State v. Morgan · Marchetti v. United States · United States v. Jackson · Grosso 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On appeal, findings will be implied in support of the judgment if the evidence, viewed in a light most favorable to the government, warrants them.”
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.