State v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2014
23 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 · McCarthy v. United States · Nachtigall v. Erickson · State Ex Rel. Henning v. Jameson · Clark 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now, under our law the Court may not accept a plea of guilty until it is satisfied that there is a factual basis for the plea. I have been involved in this case from its inception; at least, through the Archam-bault 1 proceedings. I have read the Preliminary Hearing transcripts. I have read the entire file of the Archambault case, which includes, as Counsel are aware of, and we should make of record, statements that he has given to polygraph people and then again the reports of the polygraph people to the State’s Attorney and to the Court. And I believe that I am totally, fully conversant with all of the facts as they exist. ... Well, I really honestly believe that there is a sufficient factual basis in the file to establish that Mr. Gregory did commit the offense to which he plead guilty. . . . Okay, for the record, the Court finds that there is a factual basis for the plea[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f the defendant cannot or will not admit the facts establishing the elements of the crime, the trial court may admit transcripts of testimony, oral testimony, or other sworn statements or tangible evidence which will satisfy the court of the existence of the factual basis for the plea.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the county in which the offense is alleged to have been committed.'”
2 later decisions 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.