James v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2005 · most notably State v. Priet (1981), Davis v. State (1976)
42 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 Gleaton v. State · Merchant v. State · Swan v. State · Reid v. State · Johansen 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a plea of guilty may be entered under circumstances showing a voluntary desire on the part of the accused to do so, with an intelligent understanding of the nature of the offense to which he is pleading guilty and the possible consequences of such a plea.” See, e.g., James v. State, 242 Md. 424, 428 , 219 A.2d 17 (1966). It was the law of this State, prior to the adoption of Rule 731 c, that no”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Priet““* * * where the punishment is grossly and inordinately disproportionate to the offense to such an extent that the sentence is evidently dictated not by a sense of public duty, but by passion, prejudice, ill-will or any other unworthy motive . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.