21 Cal. 4th 424 - People v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
70 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 851 (§ 411 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The majority acknowledge that the Sumstine rule, as applied to Boykin - Tahl issues, is tolerable only insofar as we can expect the record of the challenged prior guilty plea readily to show, on its face, that the defendant knew and waived his rights. For this reason, only priors governed by Tahl 's requirement of express admonitions and waivers may be the subject of a Sumstine motion. Just as this principle eliminates Boykin - Tahl challenges to California priors that predate Tahl , so must Boykin - Tahl challenges to non-California priors be excluded, except where it appears beyond doubt that the guilty pleas underlying such convictions were subject, under the law of the convicting jurisdictions, to Tahl -like procedural formalities.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Such a claim [of ineffective assistance of counsel] often will necessitate a factual investigation with regard to counsel's actions, omissions, and strategic decisions, requiring the parties and the court to reconstruct events possibly remote in time, and to scour potentially voluminous records, substantially delaying the proceedings related to the current offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the record of the hearing in which the trial court accepted the defendant's plea should clearly demonstrate the defendant was told of his rights and that he affirmatively waived them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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