State v. Woody’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2012
2 district · 18 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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · State v. Smith · State v. Caldwell · State v. Perry · State v. Roux
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is to be presumed that no honorable lawyer would enter such a plea in behalf of his client unless the client authorized him to do so. Generally speaking, the legal profession is composed of honorable men who are fair and candid in their dealings with the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Defendant’s plea of guilty was equivalent to a conviction of the offense charged, and no other proof of guilt was required. S. v. Smith, 265 N.C. 173 , 143 S.E. 2d 293 , quotes S. v. Warren, 113 N.C. 683, 684 , 18 S.E. 498, 498 , as follows: ‘The defendant having pleaded guilty, his appeal could not call in question the facts charged, nor the regularity and correctness in form of the warrant. * * * The appeal could only bring up for review the question whether the facts charged, and of which the defendant admitted himself to have been guilty, constitute an offense punishable under the laws and constitution.’ To the same effect, 5 Wharton’s Criminal Law and Procedure (Anderson Ed. 1957) § 2247, p. 498.” State v. Woody, 271 N.C. 544 , 157 S.E. 2d 108 (1967) quoting State v. Perry, 265 N.C. 517 , 144 S.E. 2d 591 (1965).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[D]ue to the ever-increasing burden placed upon this Court to rule upon the countless petitions for review of the constitutionality of criminal convictions, it would be well, though not mandatory, for every trial judge in this State to interrogate, as most of our trial judges do, every defendant who enters a plea of guilty in order to be sure that he has freely, voluntarily and intelligently consented to and authorized the entry of such plea. However, we wish to make it clear that any failure on the part of the trial judge to follow this recommended procedure in cases of this nature would not be fatal to the conviction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ford
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.