United States v. Herrera’s Empirical Analysis
928 F.2d 769 · 1991
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably United States v. Silverman (1992), United States v. Phibbs (1993)
65 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
Relies on Santobello v. New York · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Unimet Corp. v. United Steelworkers · Williams v. State of Oklahoma
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficient indicia of reliability to support its probable accuracy.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is impossible for a trial judge to properly administer a plea agreement if it consists of secret terms known only to the parties. Furthermore, “a plea bargain itself is contractual in nature and ‘subject to contract-law standards.’ ” ... [W]here Rule 11 procedures were fully adequate, absent extraordinary circumstances, or some explanation of why defendant did not reveal other terms, at least when specifically asked to do so by the court, a defendant’s plea agreement consists of the terms revealed in open court[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]ith regard to the objections that have been raised ... I'm going to deny the objections,”
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.