State v. Faraday’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 183 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 190 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State v. Skakel (2006), State v. Fagan (2006)
7 federal appellate · 183 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 Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Weaver v. Graham · Lynce v. Mathis
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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he entry of a guilty plea under the Alford doctrine carries the same consequences as a standard plea of guilty.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o the extent that the trial court has made findings of fact, our review is limited to deciding whether such findings were clearly erroneous.... A finding of fact is clearly erroneous when there is no evidence in the record to support it ... or when although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'A guilty plea under the Alford doctrine is ... the functional equivalent [to an unconditional] plea of nolo contendere' ... State v. Palmer , 196 Conn. 157 , 169 n.3, 491 A.2d 1075 (1985) ; which itself 'has the same legal effect as a plea of guilty on all further proceedings within the indictment. ... The only practical difference is that the plea of nolo contendere may not be used against the defendant as an admission in a subsequent criminal or civil case.' ... Groton v. United Steelworkers of America , 254 Conn. 35 , 49, 757 A.2d 501 (2000).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.