Boykin v. Alabama’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2,930 federal appellate · 316 district · 14,894 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20,892 later decisions (132 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973), Barker v. Wingo (1972)
2,930 federal appellate · 316 district · 14,894 state decisions — followed in 50 states
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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Jackson v. Denno · Pointer v. Texas · McCarthy v. United States
Cited together with Brady v. United States · McCarthy v. United States · North Carolina v. Alford · Johnson v. Zerbst · McMann v. Richardson
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 20,892 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plea of guilty is more than a confession which admits that the accused did various acts; it is itself a conviction; nothing remains but to give judgment and determine punishment.”
388 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege.”
91 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A majority of criminal convictions are obtained after a plea of guilty. If these convictions are to be insulated from attack, the trial court is best advised to conduct an on the record examination of the defendant which should include, inter alia, an attempt to satisfy itself that the defendant understands the nature of the charges, his right to a jury trial, the acts sufficient to constitute the offenses for which he is charged and the permissible range of sentences.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Jamison v. Klem · State v. Urbano
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.