McDonnell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
457 F.2d 1049 · 1972
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2005
7 federal appellate ·
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. § 751
Relies on Spinelli v. United States · Berger v. United States · Remmer v. United States · Douglas v. Alabama · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prosecute with earnestness and vigor ... may strike hard blows ... [but] is not at liberty to strike foul ones.”
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.