McClain v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
676 F.2d 915 · 1982
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably State v. Anderson (1989), United States v. Jefferson (1983)
70 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 28 U.S.C. § 2106 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · United States v. Tucker · United States v. DiFrancesco · Simpson 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[cjonsecutive sentences were mandatory in this case under section 924(c) and the sentences were truly interdependent” and cautioning that the opinion was not”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“what we have said ... in no way is addressed to a situation involving concurrent or non-interlocking sentences”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The law of the case doctrine is discretionary in the Second Circuit, and the court sometimes may review an earlier ruling, ... Nevertheless, because there is a strong policy favoring finality the court exercises its underlying power to review earlier rulings “sparingly,” ... (citations omitted).”
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.