State v. Ballard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We are not entirely satisfied that the defendant was not deprived of his day in court through the failure of his then-retained counsel to prepare his defense. With some reservation also, we note that such counsel was not called upon by the State to refute the uncontradicted contentions of the defendant and his wife that such counsel had overborne the defendant’s objections to pleading guilty by in effect dictating a plea of guilty in view of counsel’s lack of preparation for the trial on that morning.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ballard v. Maggio

2. “The court may permit a plea of guilty to be withdrawn at any time before sentence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 321 So. 2d 506 - State v. DeManuel