United States v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
433 F.2d 591 · 1970
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011 · most notably Blackledge v. Allison (1977), Correale v. United States (1973)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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. § 2313 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on MacHibroda v. United States · Howard v. United States · Shelton v. United States · Shelton v. United States · Pilkington 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The factual allegations (at issue) related primarily to purported occurrences outside the courtroom and upon which the record could, therefore, cast no real light”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the courts have generally concluded that the Rule 11 record is 'evidential on the issue of voluntariness . . . not conclusive,”
1 later decision 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.”
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.