United States v. McClain’s Empirical Analysis
531 F.2d 431 · 1976
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably United States v. Pheaster (1976), United States v. Hearst (1977)
45 federal appellate · 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · Sedillo v. United States · United States v. Russell
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under the law of entrapment, 'it is not the state of mind of the government agent that is important; ... it is the predisposition of the defendant to commit the offense ... that counts.'”
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.