United States v. Sitton’s Empirical Analysis
968 F.2d 947 · 1992
Citation profile
141 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 235 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably United States v. Sarno (1995), United States v. Olano (1995)
141 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 991
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Leon · Franks v. Delaware · Burks v. United States · Arizona v. Fulminante
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 235 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction of offenses against the laws of the United States under 18 U.S.C. § 3231 ; the permission of the states is not a prerequisite to exercise of that jurisdiction.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ineffective assistance claims are ordinarily reviewed only in collateral proceedings because such claims usually cannot be resolved without the development of facts outside the original record.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A] prosecutor's charging decision cannot be judicially reviewed absent a prima facie showing that it rested on an impermissible basis, such as gender or race.”
6 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.