Bright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
July 1987
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States · 316 So. 2d 267 - Williams v. State · Reddick v. State · 278 So. 2d 657 - Scarborough 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No plea of guilty or nolo contendere shall be accepted by a court without first determining, in open court, with means of recording the proceedings stenographically or by mechanical means, that the circumstances surrounding the plea reflect a full understanding of the significance of the plea and its voluntariness, and that there is a factual basis for the plea of guilty. (emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shannon v. State“it was quite obvious that she was not unwittingly admitting guilt to a crime she did not commit,”
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.