State v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Vanden Hoek v. Weber (2006), State v. Deilke (2004)
48 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 Strickland v. Washington · Santobello v. New York · 92 Wis. 2d 797 - State v. MacHner · 131 Wis. 2d 246 - State v. Bangert · 207 Wis. 2d 258 - State v. Smith
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a plea agreement undisputedly indicates that a recommendation is to be for concurrent sentences, an undisputed recommendation of consecutive sentences that is not corrected at the sentencing hearing constitutes a material and substantial breach of the plea agreement as a matter of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“consider whether the State breached the plea agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although a defendant has no right to call upon the prosecution to perform while the agreement is wholly executory, once the defendant has given up his [or her] bargaining chip by pleading guilty, due process requires that the defendant's expectations be fulfilled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bowers
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.