United States v. Hoctor’s Empirical Analysis
487 F.2d 270 · 1973
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 841 (Amendments of 1973 to Federal Law) · 18 U.S.C. § 842 · 18 U.S.C. § 845 · 18 U.S.C. § 848 · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on United States v. Bass · Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton · Difronzo v. United States · Jerome v. United States · United States v. Pelzer
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every defendant who has fulfilled the conditions of his probation may ... be permitted in the discretion of the court to withdraw his plea of guilty and enter a plea of not guilty, or if he has been convicted after a plea of not guilty, the court may in its discretion set aside the verdict of guilty; and in either case, the court may thereupon dismiss the information or indictment against such defendant, who shall thereafter be released from all penalties and disabilities resulting from the offense or crime of which he has been convicted . . . ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless there is a direct and positive conflict . . . so that the two cannot be reconciled . . . .”
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.