United States v. MacDonald’s Empirical Analysis
531 F.2d 196 · 1976
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably United States v. MacDonald (1982), United States v. MacDonald (1978)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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
Relationships
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · United States v. Marion · Green v. United States · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · Wade v. Hunter
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“inquiry into the other factors that go into ... assessing MacDonald's claim that he has been denied a speedy trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“that MacDonald's military arrest was the functional equivalent of a civilian arrest”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[g]enerally, this defense should be reviewed after final judgment,”
2 later decisions 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.