2 Cal. 4th 924 - In Re Alvernaz’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 213 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 283 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Missouri v. Frye (2012), 9 Cal. 4th 464 - People v. Duvall (1995)
37 federal appellate · 213 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Strickland v. Washington · North Carolina v. Alford · Hill v. Lockhart · Santobello v. New York · McMann v. Richardson
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 283 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant's self-serving statement — after trial, conviction, and sentence — that with competent advice he or she would have accepted a proffered plea bargain, is insufficient in and of itself to sustain the defendant's burden of proof as to prejudice, and must be corroborated independently by objective evidence. A contraiy holding would lead to an unchecked flow of easily fabricated claims.”). On the one hand, Turner v. Calderon, 281 F.3d 851 (9th Cir.2002), made the comparable holding that”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Perez v. Rosario · Perez v. Rosario“the district attorney shall submit the previously offered plea bargain to the trial court for its approval, unless the district attorney within 30 days elects to retry the defendant and resume the plea negotiation process. If the plea bargain is submitted to and approved by the trial court, the judgment shall be modified consistent with the terms of the plea bargain.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Most courts, in determining the remedy that should be afforded a defendant who establishes that he or she has been denied effective assistance of counsel with regard to an offered plea bargain, have vacated the judgment of conviction and remanded the case for a new trial”
2 later decisions 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.