Politte v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
852 F.2d 924 · 1988
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably United States v. Pollard (1992), Miles v. Dorsey (1995)
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 844 · 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Rakas v. Illinois · Singleton v. Wulff · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Blackledge v. Allison · Chaffin v. Stynchcombe
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“, It is likely that William Politte’s personal motives for pleading guilty were influenced by his sense of concern for his wife. The worry about his wife’s fate may have increased the anxiety that he felt anticipating sentencing-however, that does not equate with duress in the constitutionally impermissible sense nor does it render his subsequent plea involuntary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Nath · Mata v. State“We hold that a good faith prosecution of a third party, coupled with a plea agreement which provides for a ... lenient sentence for that third party, cannot form the basis of a claim of coercion by a defendant seeking to show that a plea was involuntarily made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a judge should dismiss the petition without a hearing where . . . it 'plainly appears from the facts of the motion and any annexed exhibits and the prior proceedings in the case the movant is not entitled to relief.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.