United States v. McClain’s Empirical Analysis
934 F.2d 822 · 1991
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Tomblin (1995), United States v. Jewel (1991)
38 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 26 U.S.C. § 7206 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Pinkerton v. United States · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Schmuck v. United States · Raphan v. United States · Zerman v. Melton
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s a general matter and with caveats as suggested here, proceeding against private citizens on an 'official right' theory is inappropriate under the literal and historical meaning of the Hobbs Act, irrespective of the actual 'control' that citizen purports to maintain over governmental activity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“even if we were to find any abuse of discretion in this [Rule 403] balancing, ... any prejudice that might have resulted from the admission of this evidence was doubtless harmless”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“improper to have charged [the defendant] under the official right prong of the Hobbs Act,”
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.