Hoffman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
327 F.2d 489 · 1964
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 1995 · most notably David Busby v. William C. Holman, Warden, Kilby Prison (1966), United States ex rel. Rogers v. Warden of Attica State Prison (1967)
22 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 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Edwards v. United States · Thomas v. United States · Berg v. United States · Gaitan v. United States · Hall v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The conviction and sentence which follow a plea of guilty are based solely and entirely upon said plea and not upon any evidence which may have been improperly acquired by the prosecuting authorities.”
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.