State v. DeCoteau’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2025
8 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 North Carolina v. Alford · State v. McKay · State v. Mortrud · State v. Tipler
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.
“(1) The court should allow the defendant to withdraw his plea of guilty whenever the defendant, upon a timely motion for withdrawal, proves that withdrawal is necessary to correct a manifest injustice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bowers · State v. Welch““The evidence presented by the State against DeCoteau ‘provided a means by which the judge could’ and did determine that ‘the plea was intelligently entered.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hagemann
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.