State v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. English (2006), State v. Ferguson (2005)
48 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. United States · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Corbitt v. New Jersey · Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist · 23 Cal. 3d 274 - In Re Lewallen
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . .. a sentencing court which becomes involved in the plea bargaining process, and which imposes a harsher sentence after trial than was offered in exchange for a guilty plea, must specifically point out the factors that justify the increased sentence.” 629 P.2d at 226 , 38 St.Rep. at 886. (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. English · State v. Tate“[u]pon a plea of guilty the minimum sentence that I would give Mr. Baldwin would be a 5 year sentence with all but 45 days suspended, said 45 days to be served in the State Prison at Deer Lodge, Powell County, Montana. ... I feel that this is as lenient as I can possibly be in the case, and that if he does not want to enter a plea on these conditions why should we prepare to go to trial on the merits of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Allen““[i]t may be difficult to distinguish between situations where leniency is offered in exchange for a plea and situations where the defendant is punished for exercising his right to trial by jury.” 629 P.2d at 225 , 38 St.Rep. at 884-85.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tate
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.