United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
516 F.2d 574 · 1975
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably 87 Wash. 2d 363 - State v. Newton (1976), Wilks v. Israel (1980)
34 federal appellate · 7 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. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act))
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · United States v. Jerry · United States v. Gaskins · Moore v. Townsend
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of course, “[w]hen a defendant seeks to plead guilty while protesting his inno cence the trial judge is confronted with a danger signal,” and he must be especially careful in discharging his duties under Rule 11.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whenever a defendant denies his guilt in a case in which the evidence is not wholly circumstantial or the possibility of mere mistake can be ruled out, the assertion that the prosecution witnesses are lying is implicit. Such an assertion was implicit in Alford. And it can be fairly assumed in such a case that the defendant’s position, even though not spelled out in detail, is that their motive for lying is reprehensible. We therefore think that the defendant’s denunciation of the prosecution witnesses and the prosecution did not foreclose the acceptance of the guilty plea.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An acknowledgement of the truth of all the facts essential to guilt [is] not . . . necessary to satisfy the factual-basis requirement of Rule 11. The requirement that there be a factual basis for the plea is satisfied, .... despite the defendant’s denial of guilt, if the judge determines from the prosecutor’s recital of the evidence the government will offer that proof of guilt is strong. Id. at 577-78 (emphasis added). Accord, United States v. Beck, 606 F.2d 814 (8th Cir. 1979); United States v. Gaskins, 485 F.2d 1046 (D.C. Cir. 1973).”
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.