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Supreme Court· 2/21/2018

Class v. United States

Citations

  • 583 U.S. 174
  • 138 S. Ct. 798
  • 200 L. Ed. 2d 37
  • 2018 U.S. LEXIS 1378

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that a “valid guilty plea does not, by itself, bar direct appeal of . . . constitutional claims”
  • holding that a guilty plea prevents a defendant from raising constitutional defects not related to the court’s power to impose a sentence on direct appeal
  • holding that guilty plea by itself does not bar a federal criminal defendant from challenging the constitutionality of the statute of conviction on direct appeal
  • holding that “a guilty plea by itself” does not bar a defendant from challenging the constitutionality of the statute of conviction on appeal
  • holding that a guilty plea by itself does not bar a criminal defendant from challenging the constitutionality of the statute of conviction
  • holding that guilty plea by itself does not bar a federal criminal defendant from challenging the constitutionality of the statute of conviction on direct appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Stephen Breyer

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128 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

38 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Other cases named Class v. United States

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