Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Sweetwine v. State (1980), 42 Md. App. 1 - Sweetwine v. State (1979)
37 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 · Santobello v. New York · Benton v. Maryland · McCarthy v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a plea of guilty proceedings the judge should undertake a factual inquiry to determine if the plea is voluntarily made with an understanding of the nature of the charge and the consequences of the plea. Further, the judge should be satisfied that there is a factual basis for the plea. See Fed. Rule Crim.Proc. , Rule 11; ABA Standards for Criminal Justice, Standards Relating to Pleas of Guilty , Secs. 1.3-1.8, at 22-36.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the state court decides to allow withdrawal of the plea, the petitioner will, of course, plead anew to the original charges on two felony counts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.