United States v. McClain’s Empirical Analysis
30 F.3d 1172 · 1994
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably United States v. Francis (1994), United States v. Wetwattana (1996)
18 federal appellate ·
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. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on United States v. Rigby · United States v. Hopper · United States v. Kimple · United States v. Colussi · United States v. Stoops
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) timely provid[ed] complete information to the government concerning his own involvement in the offense; or (2) timely notif[ied] authorities of his intention to enter a plea of guilty, thereby permitting the government to avoid preparing for trial and permitting the court to allocate its resources efficiently.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he timeliness of a defendant's decision to plead guilty will necessarily depend on the extent of trial preparation already undertaken prior to the plea and the decision's proximity in time to the trial date.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“bears the burden 'to establish to the satisfaction of the district court that it was engaged in meaningful trial preparation when the defendant gave notice to plead guilty.'”
2 later decisions 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.