State v. McFord’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The decision in Anders was bottomed on the proposition that a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to full appellate review; however, there is no constitutional right to post-conviction review.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Thompson · State v. Thompson

2. “A plea agreement may operate in favor of persons who are not manifestly guilty of the crime charged when such a person, faced with a distinct possibility of a finding of guilt, may elect to enter into a plea and receive a sentence far less severe than might possibly have resulted from a trial on the original offense ... (W)hen a plea is knowingly and voluntarily entered with effective assistance of counsel, and when there is a factual basis for the plea, “the foundation and purpose of plea bargaining would be undermined by allowing a party to later recant and request withdrawal of his guilty plea.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Fritz

3. “set forth in detail the grounds wherein it is believed the court erred.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Thompson