United States v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
752 F.2d 535 · 1985
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Kirshner v. Uniden Corp. of America (1988), Focus v. Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas (1996)
53 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 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 956 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · United States v. Tucker · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Townsend v. Burke · Lawlor v. National Screen Service Corp.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] prior denial of a petition for a writ of mandamus will have res judicata effect only if the denial was 'on the merits,'....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'validity of the legal proceeding itself' ") (citation omitted). In United States v. Dean, 752 F.2d 535 (11th Cir. 1985), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 824 (1986), the court held that Addonizio "completely foreclose[d] Dean's argument that the sentence was 'illegal' merely because the sentencing judge was mistaken about the length of time Dean would likely serve prior to parole.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“within 120 days after the sentence is imposed, or within 120 days after receipt by the court of a mandate issued upon affirmance of the judgment or dismissal of the appeal, or within 120 days after entry of any order or judgment of the Supreme Court denying review of, or having the effect of upholding, a judgment of conviction.”
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.