United States v. Ready’s Empirical Analysis
82 F.3d 551 · 1996
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Cooper (2006), United States v. Hahn (2004)
97 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 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. § 3013 · 18 U.S.C. § 3663 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Brady v. United States · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · United States v. Tucker · Jones v. Barnes
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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`ordinarily has certain awesome advantages in bargaining power,'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a waiver of the right to appeal should only be enforced by an appellate court if the record 'clearly demonstrates' that the waiver was both knowing (in the sense that the defendant fully understood the potential consequences of his waiver) and voluntary.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“different types of contracts are subjected to different interpretive rules and background understandings. Plea agreements are unique contracts in which special due process concerns for fairness and the adequacy of procedural safeguards obtain.”
4 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.