United States v. McClean’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.2d 1250 · 1976
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably United States v. Stavroulakis (1992), United States v. Walsh (1999)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 2 U.S.C. § 192
Relies on Faretta v. California · Screws v. United States · Russell v. United States · United States v. Guest · Anderson 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person . . . to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]ecognizing that particular facts needed in particular cases are obtainable by bills of particulars or discovery, we have repeatedly refused, in the absence of any showing of prejudice, to dismiss . . . charges for lack of specificity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A trial counsel worthy of the name should be capable of subordinating his personal predilections to his professional duty.”
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.