McGee v. Aaron’s Empirical Analysis
523 F.2d 825 · 1975
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1995
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Haines v. Kerner · United States ex rel. Johnson v. Chairman of New York State Board of Parole · Divine v. Amato · Childs v. United States Board of Parole · Samuel K. Garafola v. Charles L. Benson, Warden
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At that point, the prisoner can petition for a writ of habeas corpus if he thinks the reasons given are false, insufficient, or capricious, as he can if no reasons are given.”
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.