Hall v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

45 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"It is settled by decisions of this Court that ‘A plea of guilty is not a mere admission of guilt. It is in and of itself a conviction and as conclusive as the verdict of a jury’. Woodring v. United States, 8 Cir., 248 F. 2d 166, 169 , citing: Kercheval v. United States, 274 U.S. 220, 223-224 , 47 S.Ct. 582 , 71 L.Ed. 1009 ; Friedman v. United States, 8 Cir., 200 F. 2d 690, 696 . In Edwards v. United States, D.C.Cir., 256 F.2d 707, 709 , the Court said: “ ‘It must be realized that this is not a case in which proof of guilt depended upon a trial. In such cases, the accused usually relies to a great extent on counsel to conduct an effective defense, because the accused does not know enough of the law to do so himself. While the accused may have to take the consequences of a poor defense, he may at least say the fault was not his own. But this is not so when he pleads guilty. Here the deed is his own; here there are not the baffling complexities which require a lawyer for illumination ; if voluntarily and understanding^ made, even a layman should expect a plea of guilty to be treated as an honest confession of guilt and a waiver of all defenses known and unknown. And such is the law. * * * > ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Rader

2. “four hours of intensive interrogation without legal advice or counsel,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States ex rel. Ross v. McMann