Bordenkircher v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1,516 federal appellate · 258 district · 1,896 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,849 later decisions (76 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Teague v. Lane (1989), United States v. Cronic (1984)
1,516 federal appellate · 258 district · 1,896 state decisions — followed in 48 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHayes v. Cowan (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Pearce · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York
Cited together with United States v. Goodwin · Blackledge v. Perry · North Carolina v. Pearce · Wayte v. United States · Brady v. United States
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 4,849 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“attribute of any legitimate system which tolerates and encourages the negotiation of pleas.”
330 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'might pose a great danger of inducing a false guilty plea by skewing the assessment of the risks [ ] defendant might consider.'”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the prosecutor's interest at the bargaining table,”
6 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.