State v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2022
17 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 · State v. Creech · State v. Coffin · Schmidt v. State · Sparrow v. State
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the other hand, it is not the court’s intent to impose a fixed life sentence and simply say the defendant is to spend the rest of his life behind bars, I do not think that’s realistic. That if he is eligible for probation in 10 years given the consideration the court has made, that it would not be a sufficient sentence. And that I will moderate between the state’s recommendations and the defense recommendations and indicate precisely what I said. The sentence will be a fixed indeterminate life sentence with court’s recommendations that the defendant serve a minimum of 20 years in the Idaho State Penitentiary before being eligible and considered for a commutation of sentence. And that will be the sentence of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hoffman“[A]n accused may voluntarily consent to the imposition of a prison sentence despite a professed belief in his or her innocence, as long as a factual basis for the plea is demonstrated by the state, and the accused clearly expresses a desire to enter such a plea. In Idaho, there is no general obligation to inquire into the factual basis of a guilty plea. However, such an inquiry should be made if an Alford plea is accepted, or if the court receives information before sentencing which raises an obvious doubt as to guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ramirez“It is well settled that if a defendant pleads guilty while denying a particular element of the offense, such as intent, the plea nevertheless may be accepted if there is a strong factual basis for it. A strong factual basis need not be established by proof beyond a reasonable doubt. A guilty plea is not the occasion for a mini-trial of the case. Rather, the object of ascertaining a factual basis is to assure that the defendant’s plea is made knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ramirez
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.