186 Ga. App. 106 - Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2015
24 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · North Carolina v. Alford · Henderson v. Morgan · Heath v. Alabama · Fair v. State
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hile Rule 33.9 of the Uniform Rules for the Superior Courts urges the trial courts to refrain from entering judgment upon a guilty plea “without making such inquiry on the record as may satisfy him that there is a factual basis for the plea” ([cit.]), “(it is not) necessary that a trial court affirmatively state on the record that it is satisfied that a factual basis for a defendant’s guilty plea exists when there is evidence that the trial court is aware of the factual basis.” [Cit.] 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wheeler v. State
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.