Harden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2014
21 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 State Ex Rel. Wilhoit v. Wells · 359 So. 2d 564 - State v. Reasbeck · 405 So. 2d 445 - Hyde v. State
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“formal acceptance of a plea occurs when the trial court affirmatively states to the parties, in open court and for the record, that the court accepts the plea.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“No plea offer or negotiation is binding until it is accepted by the trial judge formally after making all the inquiries, advisements and determinations required by this Rule. Until that time, it may be withdrawn by either party without any necessary justification.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Howard v. State · Mennella v. State“until formal acceptance has occurred the plea binds no one: not the defendant, the prosecutor, or the court.”
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.