Lawrence v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
April 1995
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Jackson · 75 F. Supp. 628 - United States v. Willis · Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Hutcherson
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he right to plead not guilty has inherently and constitutionally within it the right to plead guilty. Access to either plea must be equally available in a criminal case to a defendant who should be guided in his choice by the best counsel, including his own, obtainable to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goosby v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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