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.
““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“"...[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 passagee.g. Heathcock v. State“THE COURT: Did anybody promise you anything at all to get you to plead guilty? [Emphasis Supplied]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heathcock 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.