408 So. 2d 527 - Dingler v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Comes the defendant in the above-styled cause and states to the court that he has read, or has had read to him, the matters and things hereinabove set forth; that his attorney has thoroughly gone over said matters and things with him and that he, the defendant, thoroughly understands them, that is he not under the influence of any drugs, medicines or alcoholic beverages and has not been threatened or abused or offered any inducement or reward to get him to plead guilty. Defendant further states to the court that he is guilty as charged, in this case, and desires to plead guilty.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 588 So. 2d 517 - King v. State

2. “In a plea of guilty proceedings the judge should undertake a factual inquiry to determine if the plea is voluntarily made with an understanding of the nature of the charge and the consequences of the plea. Further, the judge should be satisfied that there is a factual basis for the plea. See Fed. Rule Crim.Proc. , Rule 11; ABA Standards for Criminal Justice, Standards Relating to Pleas of Guilty , Secs. 1.3-1.8, at 22-36.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 488 So. 2d 41 - Alexander v. State

3. ““[T]he showing of a colloquy is not necessary where the required contents of a colloquy are otherwise shown as a matter of record, and ... they can be so shown by execution and acknowledgement of the execution of the ‘Ireland’ form (Ireland v. State, 47 Ala.App. 65 , 250 So.2d 602 [1971]) or by a recitation in the judgment of the contents of such a colloquy.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 588 So. 2d 517 - King v. State