Davis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
210 F.2d 118 · 1954
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1982
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Hayman · Walker v. Johnston · Morgan v. United States · Mothershead v. King
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The issues raised by respondent’s motion were not determined by the ‘files and records’ in the trial court. In such circumstances, Section 2255 requires that the trial court act on the motion as follows: ‘* * * cause notice thereof to be served upon the United States attorney, grant a prompt hearing thereon, determine the issues and make findings of fact and conclusions of law with respect thereto.’ (Emphasis supplied.) In requiring a ‘hearing,’ the Section ‘has obvious reference to the tradition of judicial proceedings’. Respondent, denied an opportunity to be heard, ‘has lost something indispensable, however convincing the ex parte showing.’ We conclude that the District Court did not proceed in conformity with Section 2255 when it made findings on controverted issues of fact relating to respondent’s own knowledge without notice to respondent and without his being present.””
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.