State v. Mountjoy’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably State v. Thomas (1970), Flood v. State (1972)
83 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 State v. Williams · State v. Blaylock · State v. Skaggs · State v. Arnold · 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An application made pursuant to Rule 27.25 after the imposition of sentence to withdraw a plea of guilty is necessarily an attack on the validity of that sentence within the meaning of Rule 27.26, and the procedure to be followed is set forth in that rule....” 1”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rahberger · Brown v. State““* * * (2) there was ‘no collusion or agreement between counsel for defendant and counsel for the State either prior to or at the time defendant entered his plea of guilty and was sentenced by the court;’ (3) at no time was defendant under duress and led to believe by counsel for the state or counsel for the defendant that if he would enter a plea of guilty, because of his youth and because he had no felony record he would receive a five year sentence; (4) defendant was not led to believe by his counsel that he had no defense and there were no mitigating circumstances surrounding-such offense.” State v. Mountjoy, 420 S.W.2d at 322 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““(a) Denial of due process under the XIV Amendment in that my plea of guilty was entered because of promises and because I was under a misapprehension that I would receive only a sentence of five years (sic) imprisonment. “(b) Denial of due process under the XIV Amendment in that my plea of guilty was entered and received by the trial court without a proper inquiry as to the voluntariness of my plea, and had such an inquiry been made I would not have plead guilty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.