Gates v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
515 F.2d 73 · 1975
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 87 Wash. 2d 501 - Wood v. Morris (1976), United States v. Ellison (1977)
30 federal appellate · 8 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · McCarthy v. United States · Brown v. Allen · William Marbury v. James Madison
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The decision of the Court in [Warden v. Marrero, 417 U.S. 653 , 94 S.Ct. 2532 , 41 L.Ed.2d 383 ] interpreting the 1970 Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act was a declaration of what the law had meant from the date of its effectiveness onward. United States v. Estate of Donnelly, 397 U.S. 286 , 294-295, 90 S.Ct. 1033 , 25 L.Ed.2d 312 (1970). A statute does not mean one thing prior to the Supreme Court’s interpretation and something entirely different after-wards.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . it is not necessary to reach the question of whether the acceptance of the guilty pleas in the instant cases was unconstitutional since we find here that petitioners are entitled to relief on the nonconstitutional ground that the convictions contain a ‘fundamental defect which inherently results in a complete miscarriage of justice.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“exceptional circumstances where the need for the remedy afforded by the writ of Habeas corpus is apparent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.