Plummer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
260 F.2d 729 · 1958
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently October 1973 · most notably United States v. DeCoster (1973), United States v. Benn (1972)
86 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 291
Relies on Price v. Johnston · Mitchell v. United States · Stewart v. Overholser · Council v. Clemmer
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If petitioner presents a second [third ?] motion making appropriate allegations, the District Court may exercise its discretion and grant a hearing on the motion.” 260 F.2d at page 730 .”
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.