McCarthy v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
764 F.2d 28 · 1985
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2013
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 United States v. Cronic · Houltin v. United States · Town of Mashpee v. Mashpee Tribe · United States v. DeCoster · United States v. Bosch
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“spent an inadequate amount of time consulting with the petitioner in preparation for [a] sentencing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garuti v. Roden
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.