State v. Smit’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2024
19 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 Santobello v. New York · Mabry v. Johnson · Mabry v. Johnson · State v. Dunn · Cuthrell v. Director, Patuxent Institution
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a plea agreement is breached by the prosecutor, the proper remedy is either specific performance of the plea agreement or withdrawal of the guilty plea both at the discretion of the trial judge”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is one that will have a 'definite, immediate and largely automatic effect on the range of the defendant's punishment' such as lack of eligibility for parole.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] plea of guilty ... may be withdrawn only upon ... a showing that it was not knowingly and voluntarily made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ruiz · State v. Trotter
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.