State v. Bernecker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If a defendant is told he has a right to a jury trial on all of the charges, and both the written plea agreement and trial court note that the charges include an allegation concerning a prior felony conviction, how can it be argued that the defendant has been denied information needed to properly exercise his rights?”

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