United States v. Khan’s Empirical Analysis
835 F.2d 749 · 1987
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably United States v. Allen (1994), United States v. Cook (1993)
54 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Townsend v. Sain · United States v. Frady · Hill v. United States · Davis v. United States · United States v. Addonizio
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The failure of a defendant to present an issue on direct appeal bars the defendant from raising such an issue in a § 2255 motion to vacate a sentence unless good cause is shown.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Section] 2255 is not available to test the legality of matters which should have been raised on appeal.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“has failed to establish, or even allege, good cause for his failure”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.