United States v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
348 F.2d 715 · 1965
Citation profile
222 federal appellate · 8 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 347 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably United States v. Tucker (1972), Lefkowitz v. Newsome (1975)
222 federal appellate · 8 district · 74 state decisions — followed in 25 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 15 U.S.C. § 77E (§ 5 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77Q (§ 17 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77X (§ 24 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 18 U.S.C. § 3282
Relies on Williams v. People of State of New York · Townsend v. Burke · International Ass'n of Machinists v. Duckworth · Williams v. State of Oklahoma · Jaben 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 347 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]ew things could be so relevant as other criminal activity of the defendant,”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n unqualified plea of guilty, legitimately obtained and still in force, bars further consideration of all but the most fundamental premises for the conviction.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ven if such claims are not waived by pleas of guilty simpli-citer, a defendant advised by counsel can agree so to waive them, and the circumstances compel the conclusion that Doyle did precisely that.”
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.