Fruchtman v. Kenton’s Empirical Analysis
531 F.2d 946 · 1976
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 3 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably State v. Stewart (1977), 108 Ill. 2d 541 - People v. Correa (1985)
64 federal appellate · 3 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 25 states
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. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States · McCarthy v. United States · Dorszynski 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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“another agency over which the trial judge has no control and for which he has no responsibility.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the direct consequences of a plea of guilty,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only sow the seeds for later collateral attack.”
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.