United States v. Mackey’s Empirical Analysis
571 F.2d 376 · 1978
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably United States v. Townsend (1991), United States v. Pepe (1984)
82 federal appellate · 2 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.
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Berger v. United States · Costello v. United States · Spies 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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'some reasonable basis exists for concluding that the statement furthered the conspiracy.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“After a witness called by the United States has testified on direct examination, the court shall, on motion of the defendant, order the United States to produce any statement (as hereinafter defined) of the witness in the possession of the United States which relates to the subject matter as to which the witness has testified. If the entire contents of any such statement relate to the subject matter of the testimony of the witness, the court shall order it to be delivered directly to the defendant for his examination and use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]nformation relating to material inconsistencies between statements given by any person, whether or not he is a prospective Government witness, and information relating to material inconsistencies between two or more persons, whether or not they are prospective government witnesses,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chaney v. Brown
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.