State v. Fitzpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 178 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Hunter (2011), State v. Montgomery (Slip Opinion) (2016)
2 federal appellate · 178 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Williams v. Taylor · North Carolina v. Alford · Tollett v. Henderson · State v. Long
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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“renders irrelevant those constitutional violations not logically inconsistent with the valid establishment of factual guilt and which do not stand in the way of conviction if factual guilt is validly established.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] criminal defendant who pleads guilty is limited on appeal; he may only attack the voluntary, knowing, and intelligent nature of the plea and `may not thereafter raise independent claims relating to the deprivation of constitutional rights that occurred prior to the entry of the guilty plea.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“a written waiver, signed by the appellant, filed with the court, and made in open court, after arraignment and opportunity to consult with counsel”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.