United States v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
531 F.3d 49 · 2008
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2020
8 federal appellate ·
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. § 841 (Amendments of 1973 to Federal Law) · 21 U.S.C. § 851 (§ 411 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Tollett v. Henderson · Massaro v. United States · Blackledge v. Perry · United States v. Mala · United States v. Martins
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the timeliness of the motion; (2) the adequacy of the court’s inquiry into the defendant’s complaint; and (3) whether the conflict between the defendant and his counsel was so great that it resulted in a total lack of communication preventing an adequate defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Kar“defense counsel admitted that the proposed plea agreement had 'gone by the boards weeks ago.' "). Moreover, the extent and frequency of the court's comments are particularly relevant in a Rule 11 analysis. A judge's "single brief remark during negotiations”
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.