McCoy v. Goldston’s Empirical Analysis
652 F.2d 654 · 1981
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2021 · most notably Smith v. Phillips (1982), McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. v. Greenwood (1984)
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Swain v. State of Alabama · Sanders v. United States · Lewis v. United States · Pointer v. United States · United States v. Wood
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a juror deliberately concealed information or gave a purposefully incorrect answer.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the allegations in the moving papers must be sufficiently specific, detailed, and nonconjectural so that fact issues are raised.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“indicative of probable bias concerning either a material aspect of the litigation or its outcome.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.