United States v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
918 F.2d 1004 · 1990
Citation profile
94 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. Dietz (1991), United States v. Taylor (1995)
94 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952 · 21 U.S.C. § 955 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Wong Sun v. United States · Bruton v. United States · Edwards v. Arizona · Rakas v. Illinois
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'reciprocal and integrated utterance(s),'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the limited purpose of putting the responses of the [defendant] in context and making them intelligible to the jury and recognizable as admissions”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is nothing in the sentencing record about any of this. Absent explicit findings, it would be overly impetuous for us, on so exiguous a predicate, to jump to the conclusion that [the enhancement requirements were met]. A defendant in the dock, awaiting imposition of sentence, is entitled to reasoned findings, on a preponderance standard, not to an appellate court’s assumptions drawn free-form from an inscrutable record.”
3 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.