United States v. Hyde’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
223 federal appellate · 37 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 463 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Benton (2008), United States v. Jones (2003)
223 federal appellate · 37 district · 43 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Hyde (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. United States · Kercheval v. United States · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Carlisle v. United States
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 463 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After the defendant has sworn in open court that he actually committed the crimes, after he has stated that he is pleading guilty because he is guilty, after the court has found a factual basis for the plea, and after the court has explicitly announced that it accepts the plea, [a defendant cannot] withdraw his guilty plea simply on a lark.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure] explicitly envision a situation in which the defendant performs his side of the bargain (the guilty plea) before the Government is required to perform its side.... If the court accepts the agreement and thus the Government’s promised performance, then the contemplated agreement is complete and the defendant gets the benefit of his bargain. But if the court rejects the Government’s promised performance, then the agreement is terminated and the defendant has the right to back out of his promised performance (the guilty plea), just as a binding contractual duty may be extinguished by the nonoccurrence of a condition subsequent.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Guilty pleas can be accepted while plea agreements are deferred, and the acceptance of the two can be separated in time.”
6 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.