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← 493 SW2D 172 - Espinosa v. State

Espinosa v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1973

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
March 1978
most recently cited

25 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Brown v. State · Kane v. State · Rogers v. State · Crocker v. State · Jefferson 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““The Court: Did anybody place you in fear, threaten you, abuse you, mistreat you or do anything that would force you to plead guilty? [Emphasis Supplied] “The Defendant: No sir. “The Court: Did anybody promise you anything at all to get you to plead guilty? [Emphasis Supplied] “The Defendant: No, sir.””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “"...[t]he statute is too plainly worded to misconstrue. To comply with it places a very small burden on the trial judge. If we bend a little today, where do we draw the line as to what does, in fact, constitute `sufficient compliance'?"”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “THE COURT: Did anybody promise you anything at all to get you to plead guilty? [Emphasis Supplied]”
    1 later decision 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.