United States v. Sams’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 421 · 1975
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably United States v. Keane (1988), Tarkowski v. Robert Bartlett Realty Co. (1980)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2401
Relies on Brady v. United States · McMann v. Richardson · United States v. Sherwood · Tollett v. Henderson · Leary 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““where a conviction is based upon a plea of guilty, the conviction is subject to federal collateral attack only on limited grounds. To invalidate his conviction the defendant must show that he did not make the plea knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily or upon a demonstration that the plea was not uttered with the assistance of counsel competent with respect to the law as it existed at the time of the conviction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In certain instances the running of the statute will be suspended when an accrual date has been ascertained, but plaintiff does not know his claim . . Plaintiff must either show that [the United States] has concealed its acts with the result that plaintiff was unaware of their existence or [plaintiff] must show that its injury was “inherently unknowable” at the accrual date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[v]acating the plea ... does not present the United States with the arduous task of attempting, years after the trial would originally have taken place, to piece together a case for the prosecution.”
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.