State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In Wisconsin, a trial court is not bound by the [S]tate's sentence recommendation under a plea agreement.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 386 Wis. 2d 630 - State v. Staten · State v. Hampton

2. “adopt a new rule of procedure, which would require that if a trial judge anticipates exceeding the state's sentence recommendation under a plea agreement, the trial judge must inform the defendant of that fact and allow the defendant to withdraw his or her plea.”

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

3. “[rjequiring a trial judge to approve or disapprove of a particular sentence recommendation prior to sentenc ing would in effect cause the trial court to participate in plea bargaining and therefore would undermine the voluntariness of the plea.”

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