Baca v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
383 F.2d 154 · 1967
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably United States v. Villano (1987), Slawek v. United States (1969)
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Maryland ex rel. Levin v. United States · Hill v. United States ex rel. Wampler · United States v. Hark · United States v. Acme Process Equipment Co. · International Ass'n of Machinists v. Central Airlines, Inc.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But, where the orally pronounced sentence is ambiguous, the judgment and commitment may and should be used to clarify the actual intention of the sentencing judge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“enhanced the prestige of the written judgment,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the conviction on one or more counts of a multi-count indictment is upheld, an appellate court need not determine the validity of convictions on other counts carrying sentences concurrent with that of the valid convictions.”
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.