Baker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
781 F.2d 85 · 1986
Citation profile
180 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 278 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably State v. Underwood (2010), United States v. Phibbs (1993)
180 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Hill v. Lockhart · Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · McMann v. Richardson
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 278 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant is bound by his statements in response to that court's inquiry.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant's plea agreement consists of the terms revealed in open court ...”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nless the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief, the court shall ... grant a prompt hearing....”
6 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.