Scott v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
997 F.2d 340 · 1993
Citation profile
133 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Guinan v. United States (1993), Gilbert v. United States (2011)
133 federal appellate · 3 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. § 3742 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Murray v. Carrier · United States v. Tucker
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a fundamental defect which inherently results in a complete miscarriage of justice”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Only extraordinary circumstances ... coupled with”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“district court's refusal TO implement a provision of the Guidelines designed for the defendant's benefit, coupled with 'cause' for not taking a direct appeal,”
4 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.