McDonald v. Swope’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1989
4 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Tumey v. State of Ohio
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There are three essentials to constitute a constitutional ‘court’ for a criminal trial, judge, attorneys, who are officers of the court, and jury.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. State
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.