State v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[I]n view of defendant’s knowledge of his own indigency and that he was unable to pay and therefore probably would not pay any fine whatever, no matter in what amount imposed, we think it highly unrealistic to assume that his plea of guilty would have been any more “freely, understandingly and voluntarily made” had he been explicitly and correctly informed by the trial judge that a fine in addition to the prison sentence might be imposed against him.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 115 N.C. App. 658 - State v. Bozeman