United States v. Reckmeyer’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 1216 · 1986
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016 · most notably United States v. DeFusco (1991), Libretti v. United States (1995)
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 853 (§ 413 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 7206
Relies on Santobello v. New York · McCarthy v. United States · Mabry v. Johnson · Copeland v. United States · Turner v. Louisiana
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The manner of ensuring that the defendant is properly informed is committed to the good judgment of the district court....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he purpose of the Rule 11 requirement 'is to assure that the accused be not misled as to the nature of the offense with which he stands charged. There is no simple or mechanical rule as to how the court is to determine defendant's understanding of the charge.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the nature of the charge to which the plea is offered, the mandatory minimum penalty ... and the maximum possible penalty ... including the effect of any ... supervised release term.”
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.