McElroy v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
124 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2019 · most notably McNally v. United States (1987), Bell v. United States (1983)
124 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 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
reviewedUnited States v. McElroy (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pereira v. United States · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · United States v. Bass · Hullum v. United States · Garber 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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“find it difficult to believe, absent some indication in the statute itself or the legislative history, that Congress would have undercut sharply that purpose by hobbling federal prosecutors in their effort to combat”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]lthough 'criminal statutes are to be construed strictly ... this does not mean that every criminal statute must be given the narrowest possible meaning in complete disregard of the purpose of the legislature'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever, with unlawful or fraudulent intent, transports in interstate ... commerce any ... forged ... securities ... knowing the same to have been ... forged ... etc.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.