In re Ernst’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably People v. Reid (1924), Lamb v. State of Florida (1926)
33 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Sanders v. State · Attorney General v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · State ex rel. Milwaukee Medical College v. Chittenden · State v. Calhoun · Kemp v. Cook
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he plaintiff in error at the time of the filing of the information was a foreigner and not conversant with the English language, and... he was fraudulently induced to plead guilty, not knowing or comprehending the meaning and tenor of such plea, and . . . the facts with reference thereto were unknown to the court and were withheld from the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he petition of plaintiff in error, supported by affidavits, shows that the plea of guilty was entered pursuant to a mistake of fact and to an alleged fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.