Hargrove v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Hathaway v. State (2003), Nika v. State (2008)
2 federal appellate · 107 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
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · Kercheval v. United States · Schmidt v. State · 5 Kan. App. 2d 494 - Wright v. State · State v. Second Judicial District Court
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except as otherwise provided in this section, a motion to withdraw a plea of guilty, guilty but mentally ill or nolo contendere may be made only before sentence is imposed or imposition of sentence is suspended. To correct manifest injustice, the court after sentence may set aside the judgment of conviction and permit the defendant to withdraw his plea.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hart v. State“serve an identical function, since both argue that the predicate of guilt, whether it be plea or verdict, is suspect or defective and must be set aside”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The question of an accused's guilt or innocence is generally not at issue in a motion to withdraw a guilty plea.”
1 later decision 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.