State v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Deserly (2008), State v. Munoz (2001)
37 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 State v. Bowley · State v. Radi · State v. Schaff · State v. McAllister · Benjamin v. McCormick
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Before or during trial, a plea of guilty may be accepted when: (a) subject to the provisions of subsection (3), the defendant enters a plea of guilty in open court; and (b) the court has informed the defendant of the consequences of the plea and of the maximum penalty provided by law that may be imposed upon acceptance of the plea. (2) At any time before or after judgment, the court may, for good cause shown, permit the plea of guilty to be withdrawn and a plea of not guilty substituted. (3) For the purposes of this section, in cases in which the defendant is charged with a misdemeanor offense, an entry of a plea of guilty through the use of two-way electronic audio-video communication [may be] considered to be an entry of a plea of guilty in open court. Audio-video communication may be used if neither party objects and the court agrees to its use. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Peplow“What sense does it make to pay lip service to the principle that an accused person has a right to rely on material representations made to him or her as an inducement to enter into a plea agreement, but then allow the practical effect of that inducement to be circumvented by permitting another agent of the same government to do just the opposite of what was promised to the defendant? Is there any question whose recommendation the district judge will take more seriously?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sanchez“First, should Bowley desire to do so, the District Court should allow him to withdraw his guilty plea. Alternatively, if on remand' Bowley elects to be sentenced in accordance with the Pre-Trial Agreement, the District Court should do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Munoz
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.