Corbitt v. New Jersey’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
281 federal appellate · 14 district · 369 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 833 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Alabama v. Smith (1989), Jenkins v. Anderson (1980)
281 federal appellate · 14 district · 369 state decisions — followed in 39 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.
Relationships
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Pearce · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia
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 833 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not every burden on the exercise of a constitutional right, and not every pressure or encouragement to waive such a right, is invalid.”
51 later decisions quote this exact passage“The criminal process, like the rest of the legal system, is replete with situations requiring “the making of difficult judgments” as to which course to follow. McMann v. Richardson, 397 U.S. [759, 769, 90 S.Ct. 1441 , 1448, 25 L.Ed.2d 763 (1970)]. Although a defendant may have a right, even of constitutional dimensions, to follow whichever course he chooses, the Constitution does not by that token always forbid requiring him to choose. The threshold question is whether compelling the election impairs to an appreciable extent any of the policies behind the rights involved.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Whatever might be the situation in an ideal world, the fact is that the guilty plea and the often concomitant plea bargain are important components of this country's criminal justice system. Properly administered, they can benefit all concerned. The defendant avoids extended pretrial incarceration and the anxieties and uncertainties of a trial; he gains a speedy disposition of his case, the chance to acknowledge his guilt, and a prompt start in realizing whatever potential there may be for rehabilitation. Judges and prosecutors conserve vital and scarce resources. The public is protected from the risks posed by those charged with criminal offenses who are at large on bail while awaiting completion of criminal proceedings. [ Blackledge v. Allison, 431 U.S. 63, 71 , 97 S.Ct. 1621, 1627-28 , 52 L.Ed. 2d 136, 145 (1977).]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.