United States v. Pollard’s Empirical Analysis
959 F.2d 1011 · 1992
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 88 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 180 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably United States v. Saro (1994), United States v. Wright (1994)
52 federal appellate · 88 district · 11 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. § 2381 · 18 U.S.C. § 794 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · Coleman v. Thompson · Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · United States v. Frady
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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) the date on which the judgment of conviction becomes final; 2) the date on which the impediment to making a motion created by governmental action in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States is removed, if the movant was prevented from making a motion by such government action; 3) the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court, if that right has been newly recognized by the Supreme Court and made retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review; or 4) the date on which the facts supporting the claim or claims presented could have been discovered through the exercise of due diligence.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nless the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“rests in any significant degree on a promise or agreement of the prosecutor, so that it can be said to be part of the inducement or consideration, such promise must be fulfilled.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.