United States v. Mala’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.3d 1058 · 1993
Citation profile
137 federal appellate · 24 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 231 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. Grant (2002), United States v. McGill (1993)
137 federal appellate · 24 district · 3 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. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 963 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Barker v. Wingo · Doggett v. United States · United States v. Ewell · United States v. MacDonald
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 231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have held with a regularity bordering on the monotonous that fact-specific claims of ineffective assistance cannot make their debut on direct review of criminal convictions, but, rather, must originally be presented to, and acted upon by, the trial court.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the critical facts are not genuinely in dispute and the record is sufficiently developed to allow reasoned consideration”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rare section 2255 cases in which the appointment of counsel [would be] warranted.”
3 later decisions 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.