State v. Heitzman’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 188 Ill. 2d 365 - People v. Williams (1999), State v. Howard (1988)
84 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 Brady v. United States · Baldwin v. New York · 402 So. 2d 606 - State v. Hawkins · 108 Ill. 2d 541 - People v. Correa · State v. Biegenwald
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`certain consequences of a guilty plea should not depend on ill-defined and irrelevant characterizations of those consequences.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[i]t matters little if the consequences are called indirect or collateral when in fact their impact is devastating.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[W]hether to advise [a] defendant of a particular consequence should be determined by balancing the severity of the consequence against the judicial burden, if any, of requiring the court to tell defendant about it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.