Arnold v. Howerton’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2024
8 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 · Hawes v. State · Green 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he entry of a guilty plea involves the waiver of three federal constitutional rights: the privilege against compulsory self-incrimination, the right to trial by jury, and the right to confront one’s accusers. It is the duty of a trial court to establish that the defendant understands the constitutional rights being waived, and the record must reveal the defendant’s waiver of those constitutional rights. Boykin v. Alabama, (supra). Once a petitioner in a habeas proceeding challenges the validity of a guilty plea, the State has the burden to demonstrate that the plea was voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently made. The State can accomplish this by showing on the record of the guilty plea hearing that the defendant was cognizant of all of the rights he was waiving and the possible consequences of his plea; or adding to a silent record by use of extrinsic evidence that affirmatively shows that the guilty plea was knowing and voluntary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bullard v. Thomas“Counsel did not testify as to any details of his advice to [Wilson] concerning the rights he would be giving up; counsel did not identify the rights about which he advised [Wilson], or testify as to counsel's standard practice in advising criminal defendants before guilty pleas in relation to the Boykin rights, or even mention " Boykin rights" in his testimony. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Kemp“the record in this case fails to show that any comment by the trial court, or by [Wilson's] counsel, informed him that by pleading guilty he would waive his privilege against compulsory self-incrimination. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Kemp
How this case has been treated — in progress
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