Zilich v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a guilty plea entered by one fully aware of the direct consequences, including the actual value of any commitments made to him by the court, prosecutor, or his own counsel, must stand unless induced by threats (or promises to discontinue improper harassment), misrepresentations (including unfulfilled or unfulfillable promises), or perhaps by promises that are by their nature improper as having no proper relationship to the prosecutor's business (e.g., bribes).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Dickerson v. Vaughn

2. “"This fundamental rule is not altered where, as here, a defendant alleges that he was expecting a certain sentence based upon his own illegal conduct. Where surrender of a fundamental constitutional right is concerned, our inquiry can not be focused upon the 'clean hands’ of the defendant. Instead, we must focus upon the 'voluntariness’ of the surrender.” Zilich, 36 F.3d at 321 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 181 Ill. 2d 41 - People v. Hawkins

3. “"[w]here the voluntariness of the plea is attacked with an assertion that one's counsel or the prosecutor, or both, made an out-of-court arrangement or 'proposition' as to the outcome of a sentence which differs from that pronounced by the court, an evidentiary hearing will ordinarily be necessary on a § 2255 motion attacking the voluntariness of the plea.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nwachia v. United States