United States v. Devins’s Empirical Analysis
646 F.2d 336 · 1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2014
5 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)
Relies on Roberts v. Louisiana · Ristaino v. Ross · United States v. Barker · Clark v. United States · United States v. Boyd
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plea of guilty is a solemn act not to be disregarded because of belated misgivings about [its] wisdom.”
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.