State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Kitchens (2011), State v. Reid (2006)
30 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 North Carolina v. Alford · Marshall v. Lonberger · Henderson v. Morgan · Easter House v. United States · Mansell v. Mansell
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even without an express statement by the court of the elements of the crimes charged, it is appropriate to presume that in most cases defense counsel routinely explain the nature of the offense in sufficient detail to give the accused notice of what he is being asked to admit. . . . Thus, unless a record contains some positive suggestion that the defendant's attorney had not informed the defendant of the elements of the crimes to which he was pleading guilty, the normal presumption applies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kitchens“); Henderson v. Morgan, 426 U.S. 637, 647 , 96 S.Ct. 2253 , 49 L.Ed.2d 108 (1976) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kitchens
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.