State v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1981 · most notably State v. Mountjoy (1967), McCrary v. State (1975)
27 state decisions
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 United States v. Davis · State v. Williams · State v. Blaylock · State v. Skaggs · State v. Parker
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The transcript in this case is even more lacking in any showing that the court explained, or that appellant understood, the consequences of the plea or that appellant assented to it. There was no explanation of range of punishment; there was no determination whether counsel had explained the consequences. Even the circumstances related by the assistant circuit attorney do not compel a finding of appellant’s guilt of the charge. The record shows further that in the court’s own language, ‘he didn’t know anything about’ the commission of the alleged crime. This shows not only a lack of understanding of the proceedings and their consequence, necessary to a voluntary plea of guilty, but demonstrates also that the plea was, at best, equivocal. See State v. Williams, Mo., 361 S.W.2d 772 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meeks v. State““ ‘THE COURT: You were there in the car, is that right, Mr. Arnold? “‘THE DEFENDANT: Yes, sir. “ ‘THE COURT: You picked up a prescription lying on the seat of the car and put it in your purse, the other man was in the drug store getting the prescription filled? THE DEFENDANT: Yes, sir.’””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meeks v. State
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.