32 Cal. 3d 855 - People v. Mancheno’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 201 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 207 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably 54 Cal. 3d 1013 - People v. Walker (1991), 2 Cal. 4th 924 - In Re Alvernaz (1992)
6 federal appellate · 201 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 · Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson
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 207 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“specifically enforcing the bargain [will limit] the judge's sentencing discretion in light of the development of additional information or changed circumstances between acceptance of the plea and sentencing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Defendant’s entitlement to the benefit of his bargain cannot be predicated on the assumption that violation of the bargain must result in some measurable detriment. Because a court can only speculate why a defendant would negotiate for a particular term of a bargain, implementation should not be contingent on others’ assessment of the value of the term to defendant. Moreover, the concept of harmless error only addresses whether the defendant is prejudiced by the error. However, in the context of a broken plea agreement, there is more at stake than the liberty of the defendant or the length of his term. “At stake is the honor of the government, public confidence in the fair administration of justice, and the efficient administration of justice____””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Georgeoff“That [diagnostic] study was one of the privileges that defendant had bargained for in exchange for his plea of guilty and waiver of his constitutional rights. Of course, there can be no waiver of a constitutional right absent “an intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege.” (Citation omitted.) No less should a court presume from mere silence that defendant is waiving implementation of the consideration that induced him to waive his constitutional rights. Finding a waiver under the circumstances of this case would undercut the requirement that defendant’s waiver of constitutional rights be intelligently made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Georgeoff
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.