Mabry v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
540 federal appellate · 66 district · 524 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,505 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Puckett v. United States (2009), Bousley v. United States (1998)
540 federal appellate · 66 district · 524 state decisions — followed in 46 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
reviewedJohnson v. Mabry (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · United States v. Agurs · Townsend v. Sain · Brady v. United States
Cited together with Santobello v. New York · Mabry v. Johnson · Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. United States · Hill v. Lockhart
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 1,505 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plea bargain standing alone is without constitutional significance; in itself it is a mere executory agreement which, until embodied in the judgment of a court, does not deprive an accused of liberty or any other constitutionally protected interest. It is the ensuing guilty plea that implicates the Constitution. Only after respondent pleaded guilty was he convicted, and it is that conviction which gave rise to the deprivation of respondent’s liberty at issue here.”
130 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen the prosecution breaches its promise with respect to an executed plea agreement, the defendant pleads guilty on a false premise, and hence his conviction cannot stand.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sasak · Hunter v. State“[E]ven if respondent's plea were invalid, Santobello expressly declined to hold that the Constitution compels specific performance of a broken prosecutorial promise as the remedy for such a plea; the Court made it clear that permitting Santobello to replead was within the range of constitutionally appropriate remedies.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.