James McNeil v. Frank C. Blackburn, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary’s Empirical Analysis
802 F.2d 830 · 1986
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2008
7 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Commissioner v. Engle · Johnson v. United States · Agency Holding Corp. v. Malley-Duff & Associates, Inc. · Thompson v. Betts · Self v. Blackburn
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a defendant pleads guilty on the basis of a promise by his defense attorney or the prosecutor, whether or not such promise is fulfillable, breach of that promise taints the voluntariness of his plea.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is clear that an unfulfilled state promise obtained in return for a plea of guilty will entitle a prisoner to habeas relief.”
1 later decision 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.