United States v. Wilcox’s Empirical Analysis
640 F.2d 970 · 1981
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably United States v. Berry (2010), United States v. Gianelli (2008)
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3 · 18 U.S.C. § 3651 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Schmerber v. State of California · Stone v. Powell · Rochin v. People of California
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the moving party does not allege a lack of jurisdiction or constitutional error, there is no basis for collateral relief under section 2255 unless the claimed error constituted a fundamental defect which inherently results in the 'complete miscarriage of justice.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[1] that the sentence was imposed in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States, or [2] that the court was without jurisdiction to impose such sentence, or [3] that the sentence was in excess of the maximum authorized by law, or [4] is otherwise subject to collateral attack.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.