McNally v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
69 F.2d 38 · 1934
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1987 · most notably McNally v. Hill (1934), Hewitt v. United States (1940)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Brooks v. United States · United States v. Drexel
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Plainly the statute contemplates a situation where the sale is an incident to something that has gone before, the ‘final step’ of several that have preceded it, such as theft and transportation, and when the sale is so tied up with the interstate transportation in furtherance of the scheme unlawfully to dispose of the stolen vehicle and constitutes the last step thereof, the characteristic of interstate commerce is preserved and the federal jurisdiction for trying the offense of sale is maintained.” 69 F.2d at 40 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“moving as, or which is a part of, or which constitutes interstate or foreign commerce,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McNally v. Hill“had theretofore been transported in interstate commerce”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McNally v. Hill
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.