United States v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
470 F.2d 222 · 1972
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably United States v. Joseph (1986), Commonwealth v. Council (1980)
19 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Corallo v. United States · Johnson v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. · Jones v. United States · San Antonio Conservation Society v. Texas Highway Department US
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. It is well settled that in a non-jury trial the introduction of incompetent evidence does not require a reversal in the absence of an affirmative showing of prejudice. The presumption is that the improper testimonial evidence, taken under objection, was given no weight by the trial judge and the Court considered only properly admitted and relevant evidence in rendering its decision.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not tend to establish the commission by the accused of the offense charged.”
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.