United States v. Haddock’s Empirical Analysis
12 F.3d 950 · 1993
Citation profile
89 federal appellate · 11 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably United States v. Cook (1995), Brecheen v. Reynolds (1994)
89 federal appellate · 11 district · 6 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. § 1007 · 18 U.S.C. § 1014 · 18 U.S.C. § 1344 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Cheek v. United States · United States v. Rivera · O'Neill Group v. Continental Airlines Corp.
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Supreme Court has observed that often it may be easier to dispose of an ineffectiveness claim for lack of prejudice than to determine whether the alleged errors were legally deficient.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“anything received from the defendant in return reduces the actual loss”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he enhancement is only for loss to victims, not for gain to defendants. The defendant's gain may be used only as an 'alternative estimate' of that loss; it may not support an enhancement on its own if there is no actual or intended loss to the victims.”
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.