United States v. McCrary’s Empirical Analysis
699 F.2d 1308 · 1983
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably United States v. Caporale (1986), United States v. Williford (1985)
29 federal appellate · 9 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. § 1791 · 18 U.S.C. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Glasser v. United States · United States v. Agurs · Berger v. United States · United States v. Beechum
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Not every variance is fatal. Berger v. United States , 295 U.S. 78 , 55 S.Ct. 629 , 79 L.Ed. 1314 (1935). Reviewing a claim of variance requires use of a two step analysis: (1) was there in fact a variance between the indictment and proof, and (2) was the variance prejudicial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The true inquiry, therefore, is not whether there has been a variance in proof, but whether there has been such a variance as to 'affect the substantial *Page 1169 rights' of the accused.”
2 later decisions 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.