State v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably State v. Badgett (1986), Board of Education v. Freedom of Information Commission (1988)
82 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 North Carolina v. Alford · McCarthy v. United States · MacHibroda v. United States · Allied Structural Steel Co. v. Spannaus · Donovan v. Dewey
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“express recognition [t]hat the defendant's awareness of the maximum sentence possible is an essential factor in determining whether to plead guilty. . . . 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. . . . Accordingly, Practice Book § 711 [now § 39-19(4)] require[s] that the court determine that the defendant fully understands those consequences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“need not be so restricted that the [j]udge [must] mount the bench with a script in his hand. . . and although not a script . . . all of the necessary lines [were] delivered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(6) The plea either was not entered by a person authorized to act for a corporate defendant or was not subsequently ratified by a corporate defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.