United States v. Scully’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.2d 411 · 1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2019
5 federal appellate ·
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 MacHibroda v. United States · Houltin v. United States · Trujillo v. United States · United States v. DiCarlo · United States v. Masthers
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a record is available which would support or contradict a defendant's factual challenge to his conviction, the district court judge cannot rely solely on his own recollection of events to rule on the merits.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Appellate courts have approved a district judge's reliance on ... memory to rule on the merits of a § 2255 motion where [the judge] supplements the record with personal knowledge in situations where the record does not reflect one way or another whether a defendant's allegations have any validity.”
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.