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Houle v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
3
states following
December 2021
most recently cited

27 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Greywind v. State (2004), State v. Bates (2007)

27 state decisions

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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 Strickland v. Washington · Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Hill v. Lockhart · Brady 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The court may not accept a plea of guilty without first, by addressing the defendant personally ... in open court, informing the defendant of and determining that the defendant understands the following: [[Image here]] (2) The mandatory minimum punishment, if any, and the maximum possible punishment provided by the statute defining the offense to which the plea is offered....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Breiner
  2. “We have never held that the United States Constitution requires the State to furnish a defendant with information about parole eligibility in order for the defendant's plea of guilty to be voluntary, and indeed such a constitutional requirement would be inconsistent with the current rules of procedure governing the entry of guilty pleas in the federal courts.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Kinnersley v. State

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.