Coco v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
569 F.2d 367 · 1978
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Spinkellink v. Wainwright (1978), Baumann v. United States (1982)
29 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. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2516 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 892 · 18 U.S.C. § 894 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Stone v. Powell · MacHibroda v. United States · Henry v. State of Mississippi · Mathews v. Weber
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Normally, where serious and fundamental rights are involved and the section 2255 motion is denied on a deliberate bypass theory, the district court must base its decision on facts developed at an evidentiary hearing”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'A lawyer must be able to determine questions of strategy during trial, and unless there are exceptional circumstances or unless the lawyer is so incompetent as to deprive the defendant of the right to effective assistance of counsel, his decision regarding trial strategy must be binding.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blanco v. Singletary“does not automatically require a hearing to dispose of every motion made under its statutory authority.”
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.