52 Wis. 2d 144 - Rahhal v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably 96 Wis. 2d 549 - Pickens v. State (1980), 68 Wis. 2d 217 - State v. Shears (1975)
66 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Parker v. North Carolina · Chandler v. Warden Fretag · Crooker v. State of California · Noyd v. McNamara · 46 Wis. 2d 93 - Hayes v. 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... a plea otherwise valid is not involuntary because induced or motivated by the defendant’s desire to get the lesser penalty. A voluntary and intelligent choice always involves two or more alternatives, each having some compelling power of acceptance. The fact that a defendant must make a choice between two reasonable alternatives and take the consequences is not coercive of the choice finally made. The distinction between a motivation which induces and a force which compels the human mind to act must always be kept in focus.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Trial judges should be careful to abstain from injecting themselves into plea bargaining or influencing the making of a plea. A trial judge may accept a plea bargain, but he should not do the bargaining.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams · State v. Conger“a trial judge interjects himself into plea bargaining,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Conger · State v. Williams
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.