United States v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 45 · 1986
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Jakobetz (1992), United States v. Coonan (1991)
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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. § 2112 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act)
Relies on Hamling v. United States · Ake v. Oklahoma · Cupp v. Naughten · Frye v. United States · United States v. Aulet
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere fact that there may be conflicting testimony by experts is not a sufficient basis to exclude such evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] district court may exclude psychiatric testimony which merely offers an opinion about the defendant's capacity to form the mental state required to commit the offense charged, without suggesting the presence of a mental disease or defect ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t cannot be gainsaid that psychiatry enjoys general acceptance in the field of medicine.”
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.