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475 F.3d 162 · 2007

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
August 2019
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 3 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Singleton v. Wulff · United States v. Cotton · Tollett v. Henderson · Doggett 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[w]hen a criminal defendant has solemnly admitted in open court that he is in fact guilty of the offense with which he is charged, he may not thereafter raise independent claims relating to the deprivation of constitutional rights that occurred prior to the entry of the guilty plea.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “It is well established that a criminal defendant's unconditional, knowing and voluntary plea of guilty waives all non-jurisdictional issues.... This includes many of the most fundamental protections afforded by the Constitution, such as the right to a jury trial....”
    1 later decision 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.