McRae v. Hogan’s Empirical Analysis
576 F.2d 615 · 1978
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2017
6 federal appellate ·
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 Roe v. Wade · North Carolina v. Rice · Massachusetts v. Westcott · Concerned Citizens of Vicksburg v. Sills · Vitek v. Jones
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and not simply at the date the action is initiated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cook v. Hanberry · Cook v. Hanberry
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.