United States v. Castello’s Empirical Analysis
724 F.2d 813 · 1984
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably United States v. Hoyos (1989), United States v. Read (1985)
63 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Relies on Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Abujasen v. United States · Cortez v. United States · United States v. Nuckols
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]olemn declarations in open court carry a strong presumption of verity”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should make a more careful examination of the voluntariness of a plea when it is induced by such threats or promises.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“third party threats and promises 'might pose a great danger of inducing a false guilty plea by skewing the assessment of the risks a defendant must consider,'”
2 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.