United States v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
100 F.3d 113 · 1996
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably United States v. Simmonds (1997), Calderon v. United States District Court (1997)
61 federal appellate · 11 district ·
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. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 860 (§ 419 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · United States v. Frady · Richardson v. Marsh · Zafiro v. United States
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nless the motion and files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fell below an objective standard of reasonableness,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right.”
4 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.