United States v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
688 F.2d 368 · 1982
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2000
9 federal appellate · 1 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 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Hill v. United States · Bifulco v. United States · Heflin v. United States · Pollard v. United States · Federal Communications Commission v. Home Box Office, Inc.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]f [appellant] had any complaints as to his guilty plea cognizable on a direct appeal, he was entitled, but failed, to take a timely appeal from the original sentencing order____ Having failed to do so, he may not raise issues concerning the validity of his conviction on an appeal from the determination of his Rule 35(a) motion, which is limited in consideration to the illegality of the sentence and which cannot implicate claims of pre-sentence error.” Id. at 370 (footnote omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[A] Rule 35(a) motion is ordinarily restricted to securing correction of an illegal sentence, and it may not be used ‘to re-examine errors occurring at the trial or other proceedings prior to the imposition of sentence.’ ” United States v. Scott, 688 F.2d 368 , 369 (5th Cir.1982) (quoting Hill v. United States, 368 U.S. 424 , 430 [ 82 S.Ct. 468 , 472, 7 L.Ed.2d 417 ] (1962)).”
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.