McGuyton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
May 2023
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · North Carolina v. Alford · Hill v. Lockhart · Haskell v. Haskell
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After sentencing, a defendant may withdraw a guilty plea only to correct a manifest injustice, such as where the defendant was denied effective assistance of counsel, or the guilty plea was entered involuntarily or without an understanding of the nature of the charges.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] decision on a motion to withdraw a guilty plea is a matter for the sound discretion of the trial court and will not be disturbed absent manifest abuse.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Credibility determinations are within the purview of the trial court[,] and the court's factual findings will not be disturbed unless clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tookes 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.