United States v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
98 F.3d 619 · 1996
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 44 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably United States v. Gaviria (1997), United States v. White (1997)
29 federal appellate · 44 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. § 1505 · 18 U.S.C. § 1512 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 856 (§ 416 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Bailey v. United States · Jones v. Barnes · Blackledge v. Allison · MacHibroda v. United States
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he motion and the files and records of the case”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A 'district judge's decision not to hold an evidentiary hearing before denying a § 2255 motion is generally respected as a sound exercise of discretion when the judge denying the § 2255 motion also presided over the trial in which the petitioner claims to have been prejudiced.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is well settled that the test for prejudice under Brady and Strickland is the same.” (internal quotation marks omitted)). 5 . Baxter also contends that the district court abused its discretion in failing to grant an evidentiary hearing to develop his Brady claim. A”
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.