People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State v. Pieri (2009), Chae v. People (1989)
49 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 · 38 Colo. App. 266 - Lindauer v. LDB Drainlaying, Inc. · People v. Wright
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion to withdraw a plea of guilty or of nolo contendere may be made only before sentence is imposed or imposition of sentence is suspended. " If the court decides that the final disposition should not include the charge or sentence concessions contemplated by a plea agreement, as provided in Rule 11(f) of these Rules, he shall so advise the defendant and the district attorney and then call upon the defendant to either affirm or withdraw his plea of guilty or nolo contendere.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When, as in this case, the trial judge rejects a plea agreement, he removes the basis upon which the defendant entered his plea and draws into question the voluntariness of the plea. Even where the only “promise” is a prosecutorial recommendation for a lighter sentence, “there nevertheless remains at least the taint of false inducement.” ABA, Standards Relating to the Functions of the Trial Judge, 34.1[c] (commentary).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eller v. State“[F]ailure to equate sentence concessions with sentence recommendations[ ] renders reference to sentence concessions in [ Crim. P. 32(d) ] meaningless. ... [A] district attorney, as part of a plea bargain, can only agree to make favorable recommendations concerning the sentence. The reference in [ Rule 32(d) ] to "sentence concessions ..." is, therefore, a reference to sentence recommendations by the district attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Mazzarelli
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.