Barrett v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The requirement that a plea of guilty must be intelligent and voluntary to be valid has long been recognized. The new element added in Boykin was the requirement that the record must affirmatively disclose that a defendant who pleaded guilty entered his plea understandingly involuntarily.” (Citations omitted).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morgan v. State · State v. Colyer

2. “We find persuasive the holdings in United States v. Gearin, 496 F.2d 691 (5th Cir. 1974), and United States v. Frontero, 452 F.2d 406 (5th Cir. 1971). Those cases read the Boykin and Brady cases together as not requiring an incantation of specific constitutional rights in order for a plea of guilty to be valid under the due process clause. What matters is whether from the totality of circumstances surrounding the plea it can be determined that the plea was voluntarily and intelligently made. 21”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morgan v. State