United States v. Read’s Empirical Analysis
778 F.2d 1437 · 1985
Citation profile
137 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 209 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably United States v. DeFusco (1991), United States v. Howard (1990)
137 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · Santobello v. New York · Kercheval v. United States · Mabry v. Johnson · United States v. Security Industrial Bank
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 209 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably understood to be the terms of the agreement.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A guilty plea is valid so long as it 'represents a voluntary and intelligent choice among the alternative courses of action open to the defendant.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[A] plea bargain is contractual in nature' and is subject to contract-law standards.”
8 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.