Cote v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2025
17 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 · Johnson v. Zerbst · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · North Carolina v. Alford · Santobello v. New York
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) make such inquiry as may satisfy him that there is factual basis for the plea; 1 (b) address the defendant personally and determine that the plea is made voluntarily with understanding of the nature of the charge; (c) cause a record to be made at the time the Rule 11 proceedings are held which clearly demonstrates compliance with the Rule; (d) he may when possible but is not required to address the defendant and thus satisfy himself from the defendant’s own statements, given in open court and on the record that he, in fact, committed the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clewley v. State
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.