United States v. Combs

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “[t]he government can forego a de- fense—whether by design or neglect—but we are not obli- gated to accept the government’s waiver”
• “When a defendant enters an unconditional guilty plea, he waives all nonjurisdictional defects arising before his plea, including Fourth Amendment claims.”
• preclusive effect of unconditional plea cannot be waived or forfeited

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Valerie Flores
  Seventh Circuit· 2019-07-03· cited 126×
• United States v. Tommy Adams
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-02-26· cited 102×
• United States v. De Vaughn
  Tenth Circuit· 2012-08-31· cited 99×
• United States v. Adebisi Adigun
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-12-28· cited 53×
• United States v. Jeremiah Edwards
  Seventh Circuit· 2022-05-16· cited 18×
• United States v. Perry
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-07-06· cited 16×
• United States v. Riojas
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-06-04· cited 4×
• United States v. Washington
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-07-25· cited 2×
• United States v. Clay
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-04-21· cited 2×
• United States v. Dionne Ackerley
  Eighth Circuit· 2018-12-17· cited 1×
• United States v. Lowe
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-03-19· cited 1×
• United States v. Ramos
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-09-10· cited 1×
• United States v. Lee
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-02-02
• United States v. Henderson
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-06-19
• United States v. Paulette
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-05-30

Cites

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

• Bowles v. Russell
  Supreme Court· 2007-06-14· cited 3,839×
• Tollett v. Henderson
  Supreme Court· 1973-04-17· cited 3,425×
• Kontrick v. Ryan
  Supreme Court· 2004-01-14· cited 1,543×
• United States v. Hahn
  Tenth Circuit· 2004-03-04· cited 1,193×
• Eberhart v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2005-10-31· cited 799×
• Dolan v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-14· cited 506×
• United States v. Story
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-02-02· cited 289×
• United States v. Ricky A. Caruthers
  Sixth Circuit· 2006-08-11· cited 258×
• United States v. Jacobo Castillo
  Ninth Circuit· 2007-07-25· cited 245×
• United States v. Timothy W. Markling
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-10-21· cited 216×
• United States v. Angelica Gwinnett
  Third Circuit· 2007-04-26· cited 162×
• United States v. Noe Mancillas
  Seventh Circuit· 1999-08-09· cited 136×
• United States v. Roger G. Galbraith
  Seventh Circuit· 2000-01-11· cited 136×
• United States v. Susan P. Robinson
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-03-25· cited 122×
• United States v. Ralph Wayne Angle
  Seventh Circuit· 2000-12-06· cited 112×
• United States v. Stephen G. Bundy
  Fourth Circuit· 2004-12-17· cited 91×
• United States v. Libia Elizalde-Adame
  Seventh Circuit· 2001-08-13· cited 86×
• United States v. Joseph Yasak
  Seventh Circuit· 1989-09-06· cited 74×
• United States v. Eddy Garcia and Juan Garcia
  Second Circuit· 2003-08-07· cited 72×
• United States v. Robert H. Schmidt and Lawrence B. Schmidt
  Seventh Circuit· 1995-02-01· cited 61×