Andrews v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
311 federal appellate · 31 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 548 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Castro v. United States (2003), Rodriguez v. United States (1987)
311 federal appellate · 31 district · 18 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Sanders v. United States · Hill v. United States · MacHibroda v. United States · United State v. Morgan · Cobbledick 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 548 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court shall vacate and set the judgment aside and shall discharge the prisoner or resentence him or grant a new trial or correct the sentence as may appear appropriate.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(A)djudication upon the underlying merits of claims is not hampered by reliance upon the titles petitioners put upon their documents.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A prisoner in custody under sentence of a court established by Act of Congress claiming the right to be released upon the ground that the sentence was imposed in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States, or that the court was without jurisdiction to impose such sentence, or that the sentence was in excess of the maximum authorized by law, or is otherwise subject to collateral attack, may move the court which imposed the sentence to vacate, set aside or correct the sentence.”
3 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.