United States v. Burrows’s Empirical Analysis
872 F.2d 915 · 1989
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Sanders v. Ratelle (1994), United States v. Angelone (1990)
46 federal appellate · 3 district · 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. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Blackledge v. Allison · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Holmes v. United States · Copeland v. United States
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nless the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief....”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f the movant's allegations, viewed against the record, either do not state a claim for relief or are so palpably incredible or patently frivolous as to warrant summary dismissal”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the result of the proceedings would have been different.”
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.