Jack v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
435 F.2d 317 · 1970
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably United States v. Cook (1993), Tripati v. Henman (1988)
29 federal appellate ·
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 Katz v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · Desist v. United States · Silverman v. United States · Lewis 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a direct appeal and a section 2255 proceeding considered simultaneously in an effort to overturn the conviction and sentence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the motions and files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief.”
2 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.