Hayle v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
815 F.2d 879 · 1987
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably United States v. Pickett (1991), United States v. Maher (1997)
66 federal appellate · 3 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 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 254C (Rural Access to Emergency Devices Act)
Relies on McCarthy v. United States · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Difronzo v. United States · Federal Election Commission v. Machinists Non-Partisan Political League · Butler v. United States
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the indictment alleges all of the statutory elements of a federal offense and the defendant's contention is that in fact certain of those elements are lacking, the challenge goes to the merits of the prosecution, not to the jurisdiction of the court....”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the absence of a court-approved reservation of issues for appeal, [a defendant pleading guilty] waives all challenges to the prosecution except those going to the court's jurisdiction.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“admits all of the elements of [the] formal criminal charge”
3 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.