United States v. Sepe’s Empirical Analysis
474 F.2d 784 · 1973
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2011 · most notably 338 So. 2d 584 - State v. Crosby (1976), Lefkowitz v. Newsome (1975)
51 federal appellate · 5 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952 · 21 U.S.C. § 963
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · McMann v. Richardson
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendants at bar had every right to and did in fact plead not guilty. After their motion to suppress was overruled they were confronted by one of the hard choices of which our criminal process is replete..... They could go to trial on charges of armed robbery and put the government to its burden of proving their guilt, ... or they were free to bargain with the prosecutor and offer to plead guilty to a reduced charge or be promised leniency... . Even with the consent of the prosecution, pleas of guilty cannot be accepted while the defendant reserves the right to appeal on nonjurisdictional grounds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““BY THE COURT: “A majority of the Judges in active service, on the Court’s own motion, having determined to have this case reheard en banc, “IT IS ORDERED that this cause shall be reheard by the Court en banc on briefs without oral argument. The Clerk will specify a briefing schedule for the filing of supplemental briefs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“( A) guilty plea is not rendered invalid because it . . . is motivated by fear of greater punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flores v. Estelle
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.