Robert Melvin Mayes v. George W. Pickett, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 1080 · 1976
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2009 · most notably Blackledge v. Allison (1977), Shah v. United States (1989)
22 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · McMann v. Richardson · McCarthy 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [T]he second motion presents the same ground determined adversely to the petitioner in the first; (2) the prior determination was on the merits; and (3) the ends of justice would not be served by reaching the merits of the second motion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conclusively show that the prisoner was entitled to no relief.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“this court has held on several occasions that when a prisoner's allegations of a coerced plea are based on alleged occurrences entirely outside the record, an evidentiary hearing is required”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Purkey v. Maass T
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.