United States v. McClain’s Empirical Analysis
440 F.2d 241 · 1971
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Leonard (1974), United States v. Blackwell (1982)
104 federal appellate · 28 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. Atkinson · Palmer v. Hoffman · Drew v. United States · Rodriquez v. United States · Patterson v. Medberry
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We would hold that whenever evidence is admitted only for a limited purpose, it is plain error, in the absence of manifest waiver, to omit an immediate cautioning instruction. The danger of prejudicial effect from such evidence is so great that only an immediate and contemporaneous instruction can be considered sufficient to protect defendants.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he failure of defense counsel to request such an instruction does not automatically bar this court from reaching the error if the instruction is not given. [Id. at 217, 440 F.2d at 245 .]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“No party may assign as error any portion of the charge or omission therefrom unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.