Alfano v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
555 F.2d 1128 · 1977
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2004
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 659 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Stone v. Powell · Hill v. United States · Davis v. United States · Bowen v. Johnston · Sunal v. Large
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Njonconstitutional claims that could have been raised on appeal, but were not, may not be asserted in collateral proceedings. . . . Even those nonconstitutional claims that could not have been asserted on direct appeal can be raised on collateral review only if the alleged error constituted “ ‘a fundamental defect which inherently results in a complete miscarriage of justice.’ ””
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.