Sutton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 district · 74 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “". .. [T]he totality of the circumstances, and in particular, the facts that the petitioner’s plea was entered at the direction of the trial court and that she was aware that she would be placed on probation, shows that the proceeding was not in any sense a trial and offered no reasonable chance that there would be an acquittal. Under these particular circumstances, the petitioner’s plea was the functional equivalent of a guilty plea.” (citation omitted)”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Sanmartin Prado · United States v. Sanza

2. “"The court may not accept a plea of guilty without first questioning the defendant on the record to determine that the plea is made voluntarily, with understanding of the nature of the charge and the consequences of the plea. The court may accept the plea of guilty even though the defendant does not admit that he is in fact guilty if the court is satisfied that there is a factual basis for the plea. If the court refuses to accept a plea of guilty, the court shall enter a plea of not guilty,””

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Metheny v. State · 65 Md. App. 753 - Ingersoll v. State

3. “In Maryland an accused is permitted to plead guilty. Md. Rule 731 a. [2] An acceptable guilty plea is an admission of conduct that constitutes all the elements of a formal criminal charge. Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 , 243 n. 5, 89 S.Ct. 1709 , 1712 n. 5[, 23 L.Ed.2d 274 ] (1969); McCarthy v. United States, 394 U.S. 459, 466 , 89 S.Ct. 1166, 1171 [, 22 L.Ed.2d 418 ] (1969); Davis v. State, 278 Md. 103, 110 , 361 A.2d 113, 117 (1976). An accused who pleads guilty waives any and all defenses. See Cohen v. State, 235 Md. 62, 68 , 200 A.2d 368, 371 , cert. denied, 379 U.S. 844 , 85 S.Ct. 84 [, 13 L.Ed.2d 49 ] (1964). See also Palacorolle v. State, 239 Md. 416, 421 , 211 A.2d 828, 830-31 (1965); Holloway v. State, 8 Md.App. 618, 626 , 261 A.2d 811, 815 (1970). In addition, such an accused waives the right to a jury or court trial. Brady v. United States, 397 U.S. 742, 748 , 90 S.Ct. 1463, 1469 [, 25 L.Ed.2d 747 ] (1970); Hudson v. State, 286 Md. 569, 599 , 409 A.2d 692, 707 (1979). Thus, a plea of guilty, once accepted, is the equivalent of a conviction. Nothing remains but to give judgment and determine punishment. Boykin, 395 U.S. at 242 , 89 S.Ct. at 1711-12 [, 23 L.Ed.2d 274 ]; Gans v. Warden, 233 Md. 626, 628 , 196 A.2d 632, 633 (1964); Biles v. State, 230 Md. 537, 538 , 187 A.2d 850, 851 , cert. denied, 375 U.S. 852 , 84 S.Ct. 111 [, 11 L.Ed.2d 79 ] (1963). Of course, before a plea of guilty is accepted and judgment is rendered, a trial court must determine that the acts”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Metheny v. State