McClain v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2017
17 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 Weinstein v. Bradford · Murphy v. Hunt · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Ohio State Board of Education v. Reed · United States v. Edwards
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.
“involved overarching issues important to the resolution of an entire class of future detentions. The same cannot be said in this case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tyler v. United States · In Re MNT“‘In general a case becomes moot when the issues presented no longer”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Dom. LS · In Re G.G.“to reach the merits of a seemingly moot controversy”
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.