United States v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
579 F.2d 508 · 1978
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably United States v. Tolson (1993), United States v. Mathews (1987)
31 federal appellate · 5 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · McMann v. Richardson · McCarthy v. United States · Tollett v. Henderson
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have consistently held that a defendant’s plea of guilty conclusively admits all factual allegations of the indictment. “The effect is the same as if appellant had been tried before a jury and had been found guilty on evidence covering all of the material facts.” United States v. Davis, 452 F.2d 577 , 578 (9th Cir.1971).”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'an admission of all the elements of a formal criminal charge'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A criminal defendant and the prosecutor may not contractually suspend the operation of the rules announced in (Supreme Court) cases in order to give the defendant a right which the Court has clearly ruled he does not have.”
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.