Precin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
23 F.3d 1215 · 1994
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably United States v. Edwards (1994), United States v. Smith (1994)
23 federal appellate · 1 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 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Murray v. Carrier · Lockhart v. Fretwell · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Burger v. Kemp
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in those exceptional circumstances where a constitutional violation has probably resulted in the conviction of one who is actually innocent”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any cocaine which Precin received for his personal use was necessarily intertwined with the success of the distribution.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]neffective assistance of counsel may excuse a procedural default.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fry v. Duckworth
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.