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United States v. Sherman’s Empirical Analysis

474 F.2d 303 · 1973

Citation profile

52
cited by 52 later decisions
16
states following
June 2017
most recently cited

20 federal appellate · 23 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Adams v. Rs Peterson Osci (1992), State v. Gilnite (1987)

20 federal appellate · 23 state decisions — followed in 16 states

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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. § 2312 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · McCarthy v. United States · Halliday v. United States · 1 Cal. 3d 122 - In Re Tahl · United States v. Frontero

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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “When compliance with Rule 11 is not in issue because the plea is taken in state court ... the validity of the plea rests on compliance with the less rigorous demands of due process.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “only sow the seeds for later collateral attack.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. ““A criminal defendant possesses a great number of rights which he is foreclosed from asserting by the entry of a guilty plea * * * Requiring a specific waiv er of every one would only sow the seeds for later collateral attack * * * ””
    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.