State v. Shepherd’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
January 2009
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Santobello v. New York · 26 Cal. App. 3d 932 - People v. Barajas · State v. Jenson · State v. Witte · State v. Johnson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a defendant’s plea of guilty or nolo contendere is made in reliance on an unfulfilled promise by the prosecutor to make a favorable sentence recommendation or to remain silent as to sentencing, the courts generally permit withdrawal of the plea, even after sentencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Adams
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.