United States v. Epps’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably United States v. Dawson (1999), United States v. Negron (2004)
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 10 U.S.C. § 845 · 10 U.S.C. § 877 · 10 U.S.C. § 878 · 10 U.S.C. § 895 · 10 U.S.C. § 919 · 10 U.S.C. § 921 · 10 U.S.C. § 934
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · United States v. Felty · United States v. Crouch · United States v. Wright · United States v. Mazur
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While Article 45 [UCMJ] seeks accuracy in pleas of guilty, Felty and its progeny establish that, if an accused pleads guilty and then at the providence inquiry, he gives sworn testimony which clearly establishes his guilt of a different but closely-related offense having the same maximum punishment, we may treat that accused’s pleas of guilty as provident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“uphold a conviction when the providence inquiry clearly establishes guilt of an offense different from but closely related to the crime to which the accused has pleaded guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.