State v. Godek’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably State v. Badgett (1986), State v. Hinckley (1985)
112 state decisions
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 Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States · McCarthy v. United States · State v. Evans
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Collins , the trial court did not inform the defendant until his sentencing that the offenses to which he pleaded guilty would run consecutive to other sentences he was serving. . . . The trial court refused to allow the defendant to withdraw his plea. . . . In reversing the judgment, this court explained that, `[i]n order for a plea of guilty to be constitutionally valid, it must be equally voluntary and knowing. . . . [I]t cannot be truly voluntary unless the defendant possesses an understanding of the law in relation to the facts. . . . An understanding of the law in relation to the facts must include all relevant information concerning the sentence. The length of time a defendant may have to spend in prison is clearly crucial to a decision of whether or not to plead guilty. At the time that the defendant entered his plea of guilty, however, there was no discussion of whether the agreed-upon sentence would run consecutively or concurrently with any outstanding sentence. . . . Therefore . . . it is clear that he had not, in fact, been fully informed of the consequences of his plea.'. . . . Thus, this court concluded that the plea was not made intelligently.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) The nature of the charge to which the plea is offered;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While it may be desirable, in some cases, for a judge to permit a defendant to plead nolo without requiring a factual basis, Rule 11 does not prohibit a judge from exercising his discretion in determining whether to accept such a plea and imposing conditions on its acceptance, subject to review only for abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Crowe
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.