State v. Merrill’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably State v. Ott (2010), State v. Rhinehart (2007)
36 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 Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · Malan v. Lewis · Blue Cross and Blue Shield v. State · Society of Separationists, Inc. v. Whitehead · State v. Mohi
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any challenge to a guilty plea not made within the time period specified in Subsection (2)(b) shall be pursued under Title 78B, Chapter 9, Post-Conviction Remedies Act, and Rule 65C, Utah Rules of Civil Procedure.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Light · State v. Tenorio“[al plea of guilty ... may be withdrawn only upon leave of the court and a showing that it was not knowingly and voluntarily made.... A request to withdraw a plea of guilty ... shall be made by motion before sentence is announced.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Walker · State v. Allgier“(al request to withdraw a plea of guilty ... shall be made by motion before sentence[ ] is announced.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.