Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2012
18 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7237
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · State v. Toohill · Warden Lewisburg Penitentiary v. Marrero · Warden v. Marrero · State v. Colyer
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of receiving the fifteen-year sentence; consequently, the attorney's mistaken characterization of the effect of such a sentence did not affect the voluntariness of the plea. Here, Hays' application frames a similar fact pattern. He alleges that his attorney predicted a ten-year sentence, requiring actual confinement of eighteen to twenty-two months. However, when he entered his plea, Hays was specifically informed by the judge that recommendations by counsel were not binding and that the judge could impose the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hays v. State
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.