42 Md. App. 1 - Sweetwine v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably State v. Parker (1994), Sweetwine v. State (1980)
5 federal appellate · 37 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 Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Santobello v. New York · Green v. United States · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"May a defendant strike a bargain with the State, repudiate that bargain so far as his obligations under it are concerned and yet retain all of the advantages he ostensibly bargained for? The answer is an immediate and absolute, 'No.’ Bargaining in bad faith will not be countenanced, let alone rewarded, on either side of the trial table. Appropriate are the words of Cardozo, 'Justice, though due to the accused, is due to the accuser, also.... We are to keep the balance true.’ Snyder v. Massachusetts, 291 U.S. 97 , 54 S.Ct. 330 , 78 L.Ed. 674 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The norm is what an appropriate sentence would be following a full-blown trial and conviction. The departure from the norm is the abnormally lenient sentence [that] is exchanged, in a flat-out [q]uid pro quo deal, for the abnormal foregoing of all chance of acquittal and the abnormal foregoing of “[a] day in court” to which a defendant would be otherwise entitled____It is one thing to punish; it is quite another to deny a reward [that] has no longer been earned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sharp v. State“[i]n the context of a negotiated plea of guilty, the whole package of reciprocal arrangements and obligations is conditional. The condition is the continuing good health of the guilty plea. If it is voided, both the defendant and the State return to `square one.' They both begin again with a clean slate. The invalidation of the `contract' invalidates all obligations under that contract by either contracting party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.