Howard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably Boykin v. State (1968), Clark v. State (1974)
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 Leon v. Klinger · David Busby v. William C. Holman, Warden, Kilby Prison · United States v. Tateo · Grant Cooper v. William C. Holman, Warden · Hamilton v. State
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.
“[T]here is a presumption of reliability which attaches to the recital in a judgment entry and we do not think that ordinarily that presumption can be overcome by the mere statement of a petitioner that the judgment entry is incorrect.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · Shadle v. State““An accused’s plea of guilty may be accepted only if it is made voluntarily and knowingly. If it appears that a guilty plea is the product of coercion, either mental or physical, or was unfairly obtained or given through ignorance, fear or inadvertence, it is void since it is a violation of constitutional safeguards. * * *»”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Weaver v. State · Baggett v. State“the presumption of reliability which usually attaches to the recital in a judgment entry”
1 later decision 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.