18 Cal. 3d 889 - People v. DeVaughn’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 565 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 585 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably 15 Cal. 4th 1229 - People v. Bradford (1997), 29 Cal. 3d 814 - People v. Davis (1981)
14 federal appellate · 565 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Brady v. United States · Brown v. Illinois · Boyd v. United States
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 585 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Issues cognizable on appeal following a guilty plea are limited to issues based on "reasonable constitutional, jurisdictional,[ [10] ] or other grounds going to the legality of the proceedings resulting in the plea. [Citations.]”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“'admits all matters essential to the conviction.' [Citations.] Moreover, the issuance of a certificate of probable cause does not operate to enlarge the grounds on which an appeal may be taken. [Citations.] In sum, issues which merely go to the guilt or innocence of a defendant are 'removed from consideration' by entry of the plea. [Citations.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] plea of guilty admits all matters essential to the conviction.”
2 later decisions 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.