State v. Feng’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Burke (1987), State v. Banach (1994)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 49 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Holloway v. Arkansas
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[to] interpret a statute to include a matter omitted unless the clear purpose of the legislation would fail without the implication,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]nlawful possession of more than one controlled substance constitutes a separate offense for each such substance possessed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““A defendant may plead not guilty, guilty or, with the consent of the court, nolo contendere. The court may refuse to accept a plea of guilty, and shall not accept such plea or a plea of nolo con-tendere without first addressing the defendant personally and determining that the plea is made voluntarily with understanding of the nature of the charge and the consequences of the plea. * * * The court shall not enter a judgment upon a plea of guilty or nolo contendere unless it is satisfied that there is a factual basis for the plea.””
2 later decisions 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.