Grass v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “—[the] making [of] such inquiry as may satisfy it that the defendant in fact committed the crime charged—”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Randall v. State · Cote v. State

2. “. . . There is no suggestion that Boykin would be applied to the states in any case in which the state court record in its entirety demonstrated that the plea has been tendered voluntarily and understandingly. There is ho intimation that the Boykin Court intended to depart from Halliday and if that be so, independent showing' of voluntariness in post-conviction proceedings will suffice to satisfy the constitutional requirements imposed upon the states by Boykin . . . . The presence of a post-conviction record which fully supports the finding below that the plea was voluntarily and understandingly made satisfies the constitutional requirements of Boy-kin even if retroactively applied.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Johnson

3. ““The presence of a post-conviction record which fully supports the finding below that the plea was voluntarily and understandingly made satisfies the constitutional requirements of Boykin , even if retroactively applied.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cote v. State