State v. Gailey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]n criminal prosecutions the accused shall have ... the right to appeal in all cases.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Allgier · State v. Bunker

2. “Although the 1989 version of the statute did not expressly provide that the right to withdraw a plea is extinguished after the thirty-day deadline, we inferred a procedural bar from its language and structure. Reliance on this inference is no longer necessary. The plain language of the current Plea Withdrawal Statute explicitly provides the procedural roadmap for post-sentencing motions to withdraw a plea-and that is through postconviction relief.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Allgier

3. “[a]lthough the retroactive promotion of dictum to holding is a practice we do not endorse, we neither apologize for our assessments of the jurisdictional nature of the thirty-day filing period in Abeyta ... nor retreat from what is clearly our holding in [later cases], all of which imposes a jurisdictional bar on late-filed motions to withdraw guilty pleas.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Allgier