United States v. Swaggerty’s Empirical Analysis
218 F.2d 875 · 1955
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1990 · most notably Henderson v. Morgan (1976), Shelton v. United States (1957)
67 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 18 U.S.C. § 2312 · 18 U.S.C. § 659
Relies on Kercheval v. United States · United States v. Davis · Friedman v. United States · Michener 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A brief discussion with the defendant regarding the nature of the charges may normally be the simplest and most direct means of ascertaining the state of his knowledge. Or there may be other circumstances from which it is evident that the defendant has the requisite understanding.” (Citations omitted.) (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(d). Withdrawal of Plea of Guilty. A motion to withdraw a plea of guilty or of nolo contendere may be made only before sentence is imposed or imposition of sentence is suspended; but to correct manifest injustice the court after sentence may set aside the judgment of conviction and permit the defendant to withdraw his plea.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“need not (have been conveyed) by the court, but may (have been conveyed) by the defendant's attorney.”
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.