McBride v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.2d 229 · 1971
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Robbins (1987), United States v. Wolny (1998)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Northeast Airlines, Inc. · Ratcliff v. Bruce · McBride 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While use of perjured testimony to obtain a conviction may be grounds for vacation of a conviction, the petitioner has the burden of establishing that ... it was knowingly and intentionally used by the government to obtain a conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Farrar v. Raemisch
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.