McCarthy v. Bronson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
207 federal appellate · 34 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 544 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Wilson v. Seiter (1991), Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. (1997)
207 federal appellate · 34 district · 25 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Procunier v. Martinez · Mart Corporation v. Cartier Inc 47th Street Photo Inc
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 544 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]tatutory language must always be read in its proper context.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In determining the meaning of the statute, we look not only to the particular statutory language, but to the design of the statute as a whole and to its object and policy.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re M.M.D. · In re M.M.D.“prisoner petitions challenging conditions of confinement.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.