Fambo v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably United States v. Wright (1994), Vietchau Nguyen v. United States (1997)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · In the Matter of Samuel Winship
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wjithout [the clearly exculpatory] evidence before it, the trial court which accepted the plea could not, in fact, satisfy itself in any meaningful sense that petitioner’s guilty plea was voluntarily and intelligently made by an informed defendant with adequate advice of counsel, and that there was nothing to question the accuracy and reliability of this defendant’s admission that he had committed the crime with which he had been charged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is an admission of factual guilt so reliable that, where voluntary and intelligent, it * * * renders irrelevant those constitutional violations not logically inconsistent with the valid establishment of factual guilt.” The district court concluded that Tollett and the Brady trilogy do not bar consideration of a claim that the guilty plea”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`defendant's consent that judgment of conviction may be entered without a trial.'”
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.