State v. Hilton’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Hagan v. State (1994), State v. Mahoney (1994)
31 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 Tollett v. Henderson · State v. Huttinger · State v. Turcotte · State v. McAllister · State v. Nance
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] guilty plea represents a break in the chain of events which has preceded it in the criminal process. When a criminal defendant has solemnly admitted in open court that he is in fact guilty of the offense with which he is charged, he may not thereafter raise independent claims relating to the deprivation of constitutional rights that occurred prior to the entry of the guilty plea. He may only attack the voluntary and intelligent character of the plea ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tomaskie · Hagan v. State“a plea may be withdrawn if [a] defendant is persuaded or coerced into pleading guilty by his attorney, or if the plea is entered involuntarily or by one not competent to know the consequences of his action or by one who is induced to plead guilty by “fear, persuasion, promise or ignorance.” [Citations omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Duff
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.