Higbee v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the approximate three to five minute conference with said court appointed counsel who dominatedly insisted on entering a `plea of guilty,' and further your petitioner being overwhelmed by both court and aforesaid counsel also being deceived by an oral statement from the Hopkins County Sheriff to your petitioner's wife in words to the effect that if Dave (meaning me — the petitioner) will plead guilty, he won't get over two to five years, and therefore your petitioner being deceived and under duress and coercion made the plea to the court but not of his own free will.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewis v. Commonwealth

2. “(1) whether Higbee had reasonable and effective representation of counsel and (2) whether he understood the nature and consequences of a guilty plea and entered the plea voluntarily, which is to say, free of such pressures or inducements as would make it unfair to hold him to it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewis v. Commonwealth

3. “counsel for the defense spent approximately three to five minutes with defendant prior to his assignment and therefore your petitioner did not and could not have a reasonable length of time to make, prepare and present an adequate defense,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewis v. Commonwealth