Anderson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““From the totality of the circumstances we are inclined to believe that the appellant here was fully informed of his rights. He had gone so far as to participate in a portion of his own trial before entering his plea. He was fully represented by counsel. A judge cannot be expected to give such a defendant a lecture on constitutional law and all of its ramifications before entry of a plea. We find no merit in appellant’s argument that his plea of guilty was not knowing.””

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

2. “"While we cannot say that the trial court here induced an involuntary guilty plea, neither can we say that, based on the record, it did not. The irregularity of a presiding trial judge conducting plea bargaining makes it even more imperative that a sound record affirmatively showing voluntariness be made. This was not done. We can therefore only reverse."”

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

3. “from the perspective that judicial participation in plea bargaining is highly suspect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. John B. Ellis v. State of Indiana