United States v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
876 F.2d 1192 · 1989
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2015 · most notably Smith v. Barry (1992), United States v. Morillo (1993)
22 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Foman v. Davis · Houston v. Lack · United State v. Morgan · United States v. Hayman · Porzig v. Nolden
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is the substantial equivalent of a notice of appeal and is effective to invoke appellate jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Tijerina v. Plentl“a further step in the movant's criminal case and not a separate civil action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“eliminate entirely the requirement for the filing of a notice of appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Smith v. Galley
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.