United States v. Cavitt’s Empirical Analysis
550 F.3d 430 · 2008
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably United States v. Pack (2010), Hill v. State (2011)
23 federal appellate · 8 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Terry v. Ohio · Hill v. Lockhart · Stone v. Powell · Wilbert Herring v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“motion brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can be denied without a hearing only if the motion, files, and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This 'waiver includes all claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, except insofar as the alleged ineffectiveness relates to the voluntariness of the ... guilty plea.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] lawyer who is not familiar with the facts and law relevant to his client's case cannot meet [the] required minimal level.”
2 later decisions 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.