United States v. Mims’s Empirical Analysis
928 F.2d 310 · 1991
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably United States v. Guthrie (1991), United States v. Niven (1991)
57 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Halas v. Department of Energy · Terrell v. United States · Dukes v. Warden, Connecticut State Prison · United States v. Layton
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“attach substantial weight to contemporaneous on-the-record statements in assessing the voluntariness of pleas.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“this court will not create a conflict out of mere conjecture as to what might have been shown”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is entitled to avail himself of the Sentencing Guidelines provisions that were in effect at the time of his sentencing”
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.