United States v. Malcolm’s Empirical Analysis
432 F.2d 809 · 1970
Citation profile
127 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 199 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Riggins (1977), United States v. Weston (1971)
127 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 14 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 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · Blockburger v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright
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 199 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(m)isinformation or misunderstanding that is materially untrue regarding a prior criminal record, or material false assumptions as to any facts relevant to sentencing, renders the entire sentencing procedure invalid as a violation of due process.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“assumptions concerning his criminal record which were materially untrue”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nless the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief.”
4 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.