State v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably State v. Gordon (1999), State v. Niederklopfer (2000)
29 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 United States v. Broce · United States v. Cortez · Hagan v. State · State v. Hilton
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]fter a criminal defendant pleads guilty and thereby admits that he is guilty of the offense charged, he may only attack the voluntary and intelligent character of his plea and may not raise independent claims relating to prior deprivation of his constitutional rights. A voluntary and intelligent plea of guilty constitutes a waiver of non-jurisdictional defects and defenses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The general rule is that a plea of guilty voluntarily and understandingly made constitutes a waiver of nonjurisdictional. defects and defenses, including claims of violations of constitutional rights prior to the plea. The reasoning is that a person pleading guilty is convicted and sentenced on his plea, not on the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“those cases in which the district court could determine that the government lacked the power to bring the indictment at the time of accepting the guilty plea from the face of the indictment or from the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Johnson
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.