United States v. McCray’s Empirical Analysis
849 F.2d 304 · 1988
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably United States v. Beatty (1993), United States of America v. Ray Lawrence Mondragon (2000)
33 federal appellate · 7 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. § 3651 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Santobello v. New York · Japan Line, Ltd. v. County of Los Angeles · United States v. Corsentino · United States v. Miller · United States v. Carbone
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The sentencing judge] stated that the prosecutor's recommendation did not influence him and we have no reason to doubt that. Nevertheless , we conclude that the interests of justice and appropriate recognition of the duties of the prosecution in relation to promises made in the negotiation of pleas of guilty will be best served by remanding the case to the state court for further consideration.... We emphasize that this is in no sense to question the fairness of the sentencing judge; the fault here rests on the prosecutor, not on the sentencing judge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Nevertheless, we conclude that the interests of justice and appropriate recognition of the duties of the prosecution in relation to promises made in the negotiation of pleas of guilty will be best served by remanding the case....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he Supreme Court [in Santobello ] instructs us that when the government breaches a plea agreement, the defendant is entitled to be resentenced by a different judge”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. St. James v. People
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.