Doyle v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 1195 · 1983
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2002 · most notably Evitts v. Lucey (1985), United States v. De la Fuente (1993)
41 federal appellate · 6 district · 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 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Anders v. California · Jones v. Barnes · Busic v. United States · Rodriquez v. United States · United States v. Tucker
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his rule is not absolute, but a creature of judicial prudence. Its purpose is to avoid the confusion and inefficiency of two courts considering the same issues simultaneously.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may correct an illegal sentence at any time....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“between Rule 35(a) and the transfer of jurisdiction rule is persuasive to this court. The Doyle court also indicated that a successful appeal on the point would bring about a direction from the court of appeals to do exactly what the trial court actually did, finding that upholding the jurisdiction of the trial court to do so is”
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.