Davison, Anthony Ray’s Empirical Analysis

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22 state decisions

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

1. “"[W]e have found no Supreme Court case ... holding that a trial court's failure to admonish a guilty-pleading defendant on the range of punishment renders the guilty plea invalid.” But even assuming that a silent record with respect to the appellant’s awareness of the range of punishment is alone sufficient to trigger Boykin’s appellate presumption, the record in this case is not totally "silent” with respect to appellant’s knowledge of the applicable range of punishment when he entered his plea.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Garcia, Irving Magana · Emmanuel Wiggins v. State

2. “Boykin operates like a rule of default: Unless the appellate record discloses that a defendant entered his guilty plea “voluntarily and understandingly[,]” a reviewing court must presume that he did not, and rule accordingly. Boykin, 395 U.S. at 244 , 89 S.Ct. 1709 .... [W]e regard the rule of Boykin to be in the nature of a systemic requirement, imposing a duty on the trial court to make the record demonstrate the knowing and voluntary quality of a guilty plea.”

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

3. “when the proper resolution of the remaining issue is clear, we will sometimes dispose of the case in the name of judicial economy”

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