Ex Parte Yarber’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 45 Cal. 3d 1268 - People v. Williams (1988), William v. State (1989)
1 district · 75 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 Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · Weatherford v. Bursey · Greene v. Massey · United States v. Ocanas
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Negotiated pleas . . . serve a valuable role in the criminal justice system. If the integrity of that role is to be maintained, certainty must prevail. The state need not enter into a plea agreement. . . . However, once the state chooses to make an agreement, it should not be allowed to repudiate that agreement with impunity."”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. State · Fuller v. State“"Because the trial court is not bound to accept an agreement between the defense and prosecution, defendant cannot compel the entry of a judgment of guilty coupled with the terms embodied in the plea agreement. . . . [D]efendant is entitled to compel the enforcement of that for which he bargained — that is, the tender of the negotiated plea, with its attendant terms, to the trial court for its consideration."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“". . . We are unaware of any requirement that the agreement be reduced to writing. Regarding negotiated pleas, two commentators have remarked, `[A] plea bargain is a matter of honor between opposing counsel. It is not reduced to writing.' Bailey and Rothblatt, Handling Misdemeanor Cases , § 39 (1976). The same is true in our jurisdiction. Although a plea agreement may be reduced to writing, the prevalent custom in Alabama is that such agreements are verbal understandings between the attorneys involved. We point out this to dispel any suggestion that a plea agreement is unenforceable merely because it is unwritten."”
2 later decisions 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.