Rhodes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions

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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.

1. ““True, the county attorney, admittedly of high standing at the Bar and learned in the law, had a twenty minute interview with him, but a fair analysis of this attorney’s activities fails to disclose more than a passive interest in his pauper client . . . the experienced lawyer many times has observed seeming thoughtlessness of his client respecting the outcome of pending litigation. In such case, he does not abandon his client, but, on the contrary, exerts his best endeavors to inform him of the true situation and of what he may be required to meet after a careful review of the facts upon which the success or defeat of the litigation depends. In a civil or criminal case, a client thus advised has had proper counsel, and when he refuses to follow such advice, he takes the risk. “Conceding that the attorney for the prisoner in this case . . . correctly advised him as to the effect of his plea, still he made no effort whatever to obtain the prisoner’s story concerning the facts of the homicide. . . . * * * “It affirmatively appears without contradiction that appellant did not know, nor was he advised of, the essential elements or facts in this state required to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt in order to constitute murder in the first degree; nor was he requested by anyone to narrate the facts connected with the homicide for the purpose of apprising him of the law as applied to them.” 199 Ind. at 193-194 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brimhall v. State

2. ““This court has expressed disapproval of trial courts receiving pleas of guilty from defendants charged with serious crime, who are not represented by counsel, until ‘after reasonable inquiry into the facts to discover whether a plea of guilty is entered freely and understandingly.’ ” (Citing cases.) * * * “Did appellant enter a plea of guilty freely and understandingly?” (p. 192.) * * * “Hence the ruling of the trial court 'must stand unless this court can say, from the unconflicting evidence as the controlling factor, and in connection with all the evidence given, that the trial court abused its discretion.” (p. 192.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Loucks v. State