Baker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Myers v. State (1991), 872 So. 2d 711 - Williams v. State (2004)
74 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 Blackledge v. Allison · Wheeler v. State · 68 So. 2d 827 - Lippow v. City of Miami Beach · 210 So. 2d 777 - Botts v. State · Dunn v. Reed
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Solemn declarations in open court carry a strong presumption of verity.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“If, as alleged, appellants pleaded guilty under the mistaken advice that they could be subject to capital punishment if convicted at trial, this then, is a factor which may make appropriate a collateral attack ... Such allegation, if true, indicates that defendants were not fully aware of the implications of their plea nor of the true consequences of a trial by jury. Such a circumstance, if properly pleaded and supported by sufficient facts, makes out a case where relief ... may be appropriate. 358 So.2d at 403 . [Emphasis added].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“not a per se rule prohibiting collateral attack on a plea in all circumstances, simply because the transcript on its face reflects recitation of voluntariness and awareness of the consequences[,]”
3 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.