367 So. 2d 844 - State v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably 846 So. 2d 786 - State v. Smith (2003), 406 So. 2d 550 - State v. Bourgeois (1981)
28 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 Brady v. United States · Parker v. North Carolina · State v. Baudoin · 343 So. 2d 175 - State v. Andrasi · State v. Ballard
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an otherwise valid plea of guilty is not rendered involuntary merely because it was entered to limit the possible maximum penalty to less than that authorized by law for the crime charged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he Court may permit a plea of guilty to be withdrawn at any time before sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“this discretion cannot be exercised arbitrarily, and abuse of discretion can be corrected on appeal.”
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.