United States v. Todaro’s Empirical Analysis
982 F.2d 1025 · 1993
Citation profile
179 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 223 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Smith v. United States (2003), United States v. Farley (1995)
179 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1955 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Hill v. United States · Duvall v. United States · Fontaine v. United States · LaBranche v. United States Olympic Committee · Baker 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 223 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a motion for withdrawal of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere is made before sentence is imposed, the court may permit withdrawal of the plea upon showing by the defendant of any fair and just reason. At any later time, a plea may be set aside only on direct appeal or by motion under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2255 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are not magic words requiring a district judge, who is fully familiar with the circumstances ... to duplicate procedures and conduct a hearing to resolve alleged fact issues which can and should be decided on the record that already exists.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he judge who was called upon to decide the fact issues presented by [the defendant's] motion and allegations was the same judge who presided over [the defendant's] guilty plea.”
3 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.