United States v. McFall’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.3d 951 · 2009
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Cain (2012), United States v. Renzi (2014)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1512 · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Burks v. United States · Neder v. United States · Old Chief v. United States · McNally 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the government's fundamental objective in questioning [a witness] before the grand jury was to draw out testimony that would support its theory that [the defendant] conspired with [the witness] to commit extortion-the same motivation it possessed at trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Wahl v. State“proceeding against private citizens on an 'official right' theory is inappropriate under the literal and historical meaning of the Hobbs Act, irrespective of the actual 'control' that citizen purports to maintain over governmental activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the requirement of similar 'intensity' of motivation conflicts with the rule's plain language, which requires 'similar' but not identical motivation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wahl v. State
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.