202 Wis. 2d 21 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably 219 Wis. 2d 615 - State Ex Rel. Warren v. Schwarz (1998), State v. Thomas (2000)
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 North Carolina v. Alford · McCarthy v. United States · 131 Wis. 2d 246 - State v. Bangert · 192 Wis. 2d 845 - State v. Garcia · 92 Wis. 2d 554 - State v. Rock
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and the proof necessary to meet the factual basis requirement behind a guilty plea: The requirement of a higher level of proof in Alford pleas is necessitated by the fact that the evidence has to be strong enough to overcome a defendant's”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“However, in the context of a negotiated guilty plea, [the supreme] court has held that a court 'need not go to the same length to determine whether the facts would sustain the charge as it would where there is no negotiated plea.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Historically, one type of manifest injustice is the failure of the trial court to establish a sufficient factual basis that the defendant committed the offense to which he or she pleads.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.