Tafoya v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably 133 S. Ct. 1103 - Chaidez v. United States (2013), Chaidez v. United States (2013)
6 federal appellate · 38 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on McCarthy v. United States · Kercheval v. United States · International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Anderson · Kadwell v. United States · United States v. Parking
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A motion to withdraw a plea of guilty or nolo contendere may be made only before sentence is imposed or imposition of sentence is suspended; but to correct manifest injustice the court after sentence may set aside the judgment of conviction and permit the defendant to withdraw his plea.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gordon 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.