United States v. Mackin’s Empirical Analysis
561 F.2d 958 · 1977
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably United States v. Taglia (1991), United States v. Parker (1990)
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Patterson v. United States · United States v. Johnson · Donnelly v. United States · Taylor 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] statement which was at the time of its making ... so far tended to subject the declarant to civil or criminal liability ... that a reasonable person in the de-clarant’s position would not have made the statement unless believing it to be true. A statement tending to expose the declarant to criminal liability and offered to exculpate the accused is not admissible unless corroborating circumstances clearly indicate the trustworthiness of the statement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'unless failure to disclose it would be harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.' " Id. (citation omitted). But first the court must be "reasonably well satisfied that the testimony given by a material witness is false.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“test of Larrison v. United States, 24 F.2d 82 (7th Cir.1928). We noted in United States v. Mackin, 183 U.S.App.D.C. 65, 561 F.2d 958 , 961 (1977), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 959, 98 S.Ct. 490, 54 L.Ed.2d 319 (1977), that although the Larrison test has been adopted in several circuits,”
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.