Everett v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
336 F.2d 979 · 1964
Citation profile
107 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably United States v. Carr (1984), United States v. Barker (1975)
107 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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. § 5010
Relies on Kercheval v. United States · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · Sparf v. United States · Sweet v. United States · Turner v. Louisiana
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Overwhelming authority holds, as has this court, that withdrawal of a guilty plea before sentencing is not an absolute right but a decision within the sound discretion of the trial court which will be reversed by an appellate court only for an abuse of that discretion.’ ””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(d) Withdrawal of Plea of Guilty. A motion to withdraw a plea of guilty or of nolo contendere may be made only before sentence is imposed or imposition of sentence is suspended; but to correct manifest injustice the court after sentence may set aside the judgment of conviction and permit the defendant to withdraw his plea.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As we said in McJordan v. Huff, 1943, 77 U.S.App.D.C. 171 , 172, 133 F.2d 408 , 409: ‘ * * * it goes without saying that a plea of guilty at that time [arraignment] can be and often is changed, on proper motion, as a matter of course.’ ” (Emphasis added by Poole court.)”
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.