Maxwell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
368 F.2d 735 · 1966
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2009 · most notably North Carolina v. Alford (1970), Pope v. United States (1967)
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 18 U.S.C. § 1111
Relies on Lynch v. Overholser · Fisher v. United States · Durham v. United States · Davis v. United States · McDonald 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... We do not hold, however, that because Maxwell was unable to recollect the transaction and so could not personally vouch for his guilt, the trial court was obliged to reject his plea of guilty to second degree murder. The offer to plead guilty came at the close of the Government’s case, when a factual basis for a plea of guilty to at least second degree murder had been established, or so the trial court might have found. Under these circumstances, the court, if it saw fit, could have accepted Maxwell’s plea. In this connection it may be noted that Rule 11, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure has recently been amended to add, among other things, a sentence at the end reading: “The court shall not enter a judgment upon a plea of guilty unless it is satisfied that there is a factual basis for the plea.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Insane,’ as here used, means such a perverted and deranged condition of a person’s mental and moral faculties as to render him either incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong, or capable of knowing the nature of the act he is committing; or where he is conscious of the nature of the act he is committing and able to distinguish between right and wrong, and knows the act is wrong, yet his will, by which I mean the governing power of his mind, has been so completely destroyed that his actions are not subject to it, but are beyond his control.” Maxwell v. United States, 368 F.2d 735 , 741 n. 7 (9th Cir. 1966).”
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.