State v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
March 2020
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Germany · Luangkhot v. State · In re Bartlett · State v. Wooten · Bazemore v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the trial court does not have the authority to accept a guilty plea to an uncharged, lesser included offense without the consent of the State, and that, where the State makes a timely and specific objection, it has the legal authority to withdraw its consent from a negotiated plea and demand a trial when it learns that the trial court does not intend to follow the sentencing recommendation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where a trial court intends to reject a sentence recommended as part of a plea agreement to a lesser charge, the trial court must, on the record and before sentencing, inform the State of its intention and allow the State to exercise its authority to withdraw its consent to the plea[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he authority and discretion to plea bargain rest with the State”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blount 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.