People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Why an accepted, unqualified plea of guilty should cure error that a guilty verdict or finding would not has probably been best answered by the Supreme Court’s observation that a guilty plea is different “in purpose and effect from a mere admission or an extra-judicial confession; it is itself a conviction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Miller

2. “<<* * * _ Certainly it is true that those rights which might provide a complete defense to a criminal prosecution, those which undercut the state’s interest in punishing the defendant, or the state’s authority or ability to proceed with the trial may never be waived by guilty plea. * * * 1i”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Jaeger

3. “Because of the high value placed on defendant's not being required to undergo the discommodity of a second trial, the declaration of a mistrial should not be made lightly, even when it is made ostensibly for the protection of defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Lett