Davis v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
825 F.2d 892 · 1987
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Lesko v. Lehman (1991), United States v. Cervantes (1998)
21 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Blackledge v. Allison · Henderson v. Morgan · Johnson v. Righetti · Soto v. United States · 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ ‘prove (1) exactly what the terms of the alleged promise were; (2) exactly when, where, and by whom such a promise was made; and (3) the precise identity of an eyewitness to the promise.’ ”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a defendant pleads guilty based on a promise by the prosecutor, 'breach of that promise taints the voluntariness of his plea' and offends the Fifth Amendment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of the merits of his allegations. Davis , 825 F.2d at 894 (quoting United States v. Raetzsch , 781 F.2d 1149 , 1151 (5th Cir. 1986) ). Cf. United States v. Fuller , 769 F.2d 1095 , 1099 (5th Cir. 1985) (to be entitled to evidentiary hearing on claim that sworn statements during the plea proceeding were false, petitioner must make”
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.