51 Wis. 2d 231 - Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 131 Wis. 2d 246 - State v. Bangert (1986), State Ex Rel. LeBlanc v. Henderson (1972)
50 state decisions
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 Boykin v. Alabama · Mapp v. Ohio · Brady v. United States · Irvin v. Dowd · McCarthy 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . To withdraw a plea as a matter of right on constitutional grounds, a defendant must show a violation of a constitutional right; that this violation caused him to plead guilty; and at the time of his plea he was unaware of the potential constitutional challenges to the case against him because of the violation of his constitutional rights.” Edwards, supra, at 234.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ [A] plea may be withdrawn as a matter of right when the acceptance of the plea constituted ... a denial of a relevant constitutional right.” P. 234.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The record as a whole shows Edwards understood what constitutional rights he waived by his plea and that is sufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reaves
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.