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Howard v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1967

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
December 2001
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “[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 passage
  2. ““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 passage
  3. “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.