United States v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
901 F.2d 471 · 1990
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2023
15 federal appellate · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 751 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. v. LTV Corp. · United States v. Meacham · United States v. Spletzer · United States v. Prince · United States v. McCray
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]ail-ure to charge an offense may be raised for the first time in a § 2255 petition because such an error divests the sentencing court of jurisdiction.”
2 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.