McGeehan v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
526 F.2d 397 · 1976
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably 94 Ill. 2d 378 - People v. Free (1983), United States v. Morgan (1984)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Chimel v. California · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Vale v. Louisiana · United States v. Looney · United States v. Smith
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“additional confederates might be concealed inside the darkened trailer with the missing shotgun,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“They acted reasonably when they entered the house and began to search for a man of the description they had been given and for weapons which he had used in the robbery or might use against them. The Fourth Amendment does not require police officers to delay in the course of an investigation if to do so would gravely endanger their lives or the lives of others. Speed here was essential, and only a thorough search of the house for persons and weapons could have insured that Hayden was the only man present and that the police had control of all weapons which could be used against them or to effect an escape.”
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.