McDonnell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
455 F.2d 91 · 1972
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2004
11 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Harrington v. California · United States v. Ewell
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is competent to present to the jury the character of footprints and shoes only where it has been established that the footprints and shoes are distinctive enough to afford reliable comparison____ Such comparison is essential to show a connection between the defendant and the prints, thereby providing the relevancy required for admission into evidence. Here, such proof was not offered, and in light of the additional distinct possibility of a similar shoe making the print, it was error to admit McDonnell’s shoes and the photographs of the footprints into evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hutt v. State“It is competent to present to the jury the character of footprints and shoes only where it has been established that the footprints and shoes are distinctive enough to afford reliable comparison. * * * Such comparison is essential to show a connection between the defendant and the prints, thereby providing the relevancy required for admission into evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a pending trial may be no more than a procedural step in a particular case and in such event the effect of the decision does not extend beyond that case.”
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.