McGee v. Hester’s Empirical Analysis
724 F.2d 89 · 1983
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably 619 F. Supp. 162 - United States v. Conservation Chemical Co. (1985), Easter House v. Felder (1990)
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Wood v. Strickland · Bates v. State Bar
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he methods and practices employed in conducting the surveillance consisted of: parking five to ten feet from McGee’s front door for long periods of time; taking pictures of customers; conspicuously writing down customers’ license plate numbers; following customers leaving the liquor store; parking extremely close to McGee’s business when no parking stalls were available; and coming into the store and following customers out as they left.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the appellees engaged in conduct that discouraged customers from purchasing liquor at McGee's store and whether the appellees intended such a result to flow from their actions. In short, we feel that the appellees' conduct must be intentional and substantial if McGee is to succeed on the merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGee v. Hester“his right to a judgment with such clarity as to leave no room for controversy and that the other party is not entitled to recover under any discernible circumstances.”
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.