United States v. Addonizio’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1,033 federal appellate · 345 district · 185 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,329 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Brecht v. Abrahamson (1993), United States v. Frady (1982)
1,033 federal appellate · 345 district · 185 state decisions — followed in 27 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedAddonizio v. United States (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3651 · 18 U.S.C. § 4161 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Stone v. Powell · Brown v. Allen · United States v. Tucker · Hill v. United States · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann
Cited together with Hill v. United States · Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Frady · Davis v. United States · United States v. Timmreck
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 2,329 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an error that may justify reversal on direct appeal will not necessarily support a collateral attack on a final judgment.”
120 later decisions quote this exact passage“A prisoner in custody under sentence of a court established by Act of Congress claiming the right to be released upon the ground that the sentence was imposed in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States, or that the court was without jurisdiction to impose such sentence, or that the sentence was in excess of the maximum authorized by law, or is otherwise subject to collateral attack, may move the court which imposed the sentence to vacate, set aside or correct the sentence.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]nroads on the concept of finality tend to undermine confidence in the integrity of our procedures”
10 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.