Wellnitz v. Page’s Empirical Analysis
420 F.2d 935 · 1970
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 8 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Iaea v. Sunn (1986), United States v. Gordon (1993)
41 federal appellate · 8 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 11 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
Relies on MacHibroda v. United States · Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc. · DiTommaso v. United States · Brown v. Beto
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An erroneous sentence estimate by defense counsel does not render a plea involuntary. And a defendant's erroneous expectation, based on his attorney's erroneous estimate, likewise does not render a plea involuntary.”
11 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.