Alan McSurely v. John L. McClellan Chairman’s Empirical Analysis
426 F.2d 664 · 1970
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably United States v. Evans (1978), United States v. Hubbard (1980)
28 federal appellate · 13 district · 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
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Townsend v. Sain · Washington v. Texas · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc.
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“stay is immoderate and hence unlawful unless so framed in its inception that its force will be spent within reasonable limits, so far at least as they are susceptible of prevision and description.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“civil discovery may not be used to subvert limitations on discovery in criminal cases, either by the government or by private parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is undoubted appellate jurisdiction to review the grant of an indefinite stay in a civil proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brace v. O'Neill
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.