Serrano v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
442 F.2d 923 · 1971
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 1990
13 federal appellate · 1 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 26 U.S.C. § 7237 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Kercheval v. United States · Halliday v. United States · United States v. Malcolm · Bye v. United States · Kirkpatrick v. Preisler
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court may refuse to accept a plea of guilty, and shall not accept such plea * * * without first addressing the defendant personally and determining that the plea is made voluntarily with understanding of the nature of the charge and the consequences of the plea.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bye v. United States“could not have affected his decision to plead guilty”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Micheaux v. Collins
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.