McClain v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
June 2015
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Powell · Dunn v. United States · Watts v. United States · Fuller v. United States · United States v. Mangieri
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However inconsistent the verdict in this case is, we are precluded from second-guessing that verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.