United States v. O'Donnell’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 1233 · 1976
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Chalik v. Moorefield (1984), United States v. Dayton (1979)
42 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · McMann v. Richardson · United States v. Marion
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Materiality does not require a showing that creditors are harmed by the false statement.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A guilty plea * * * renders irrelevant those constitutional violations not logically inconsistent with the valid establishment of factual guilt and which do not stand in the way of conviction, if factual guilt is validly established.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficient to determine that the defendant understands the charges against him and the consequences of his plea, and that the defendant's plea is truly voluntary.”
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.