Commonwealth v. Sandy’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
2
states following
December 2012
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mabry v. Johnson · Greene v. Massey · State v. Collins · 95 Wash. 2d 799 - State v. Wheeler · Shields v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plea bargain standing alone is without constitutional significance; in itself it is a mere executory agreement which, until embodied in the judgment of a court, does not deprive an accused of liberty or any other constitutionally protected interest. It is the ensuing guilty plea that implicates the Constitution. Only after [the defendant] pleaded guilty was he convicted, and it is that conviction which gave rise to the deprivation of [the defendant’s] liberty at issue here. [Mabry, 467 U.S.] at 507-08, 104 S.Ct. [at 2546] (footnotes omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Absent judicial approval or prejudice to a criminal defendant, a proposed plea agreement cannot be binding upon the Commonwealth because the defendant has suffered no harm, and the defendant is [likewise] free to reject the proposed agreement before it is submitted to a court in spite of any prejudice that the Commonwealth may have incurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We hold that a Commonwealth's Attorney may withdraw from a proposed plea agreement at any time before the actual entry of a guilty plea by a defendant or any other change of position by the defendant resulting in prejudice to him because of reliance upon the agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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