United States v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
473 F.2d 300 · 1972
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Daye v. Attorney General of New York (1982), United States v. Sperling (1974)
62 federal appellate · 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. § 659
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Wade · Kotteakos v. United States · Schmerber v. State of California · Holt 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after pondering all that happened without stripping the erroneous action from the whole, that the judgment was not substantially swayed by the error . . . .”
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.