Palmberg, Bryan Elliott’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The fact that [the defendant's] roll of the dice did not turn out as favorably as it might have had he proceeded to trial is not a ground for invalidating his plea.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Briggs v. State · Saucedo, Andrew Melchor

2. “We also note that Briggs makes no express argument in this direct appeal that she received ineffective assistance of counsel.... We will not construe Briggs's voluntariness argument as an ineffective assistance of counsel claim.... [W]e limit our analysis and holding today to the voluntariness argument in Briggs's appeal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Briggs v. State

3. “the law ordinarily considers a waiver knowing, intelligent, and sufficiently aware if the defendant fully understands the nature of the right and how it would likely apply in general in the circumstances-even though the defendant may not know the specific detailed consequences of invoking it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Saucedo, Andrew Melchor