McLucas v. DeChamplain’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 19 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Weinberger v. Salfi (1975), Silkwood v. Corporation (1984)
43 federal appellate · 19 district · 4 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia District Court)
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 839 · 10 U.S.C. § 881 · 10 U.S.C. § 892 · 10 U.S.C. § 934 · 18 U.S.C. § 793 · 28 U.S.C. § 1252 · 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · Parker v. Levy · Flemming v. Nestor · United States v. James Griggs Raines
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any party may appeal to the Supreme Court from an interlocutory or final judgment, decree or order of any court of the United States . . . holding an Act of Congress unconstitutional in any civil action, suit, or proceeding to which the United States or any of its agencies, or any officer or employee thereof, as such officer or employee, is a party.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“from an interlocutory or final judgment, decree or order of any court of the United States . . . holding an Act of Congress unconstitutional in any civil action . . . to which the United States or any of its agencies, or any officer or employee thereof, as such officer or employee, is a party.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“and thus will be bound by a holding of unconstitutionality”
3 later decisions 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.