United States v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
794 F.2d 1415 · 1986
Citation profile
128 federal appellate · 8 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 200 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably United States v. Flores-Payon (1991), Sanchez v. United States (1995)
128 federal appellate · 8 district · 13 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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952 · 21 U.S.C. § 963
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Hill v. Lockhart · United States v. Cortez
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 200 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To determine whether a plea agreement was violated we look to 'what the parties ... reasonably understood to be the terms of the agreement.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may have committed or is about to commit a crime.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that an actual conflict of interest adversely affected his lawyer's performance.”
5 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.