Bradshaw v. Stumpf’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
144 federal appellate · 20 district · 280 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 649 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably United States v. Lessner (2007), 234 Ill. 2d 68 - People v. Runge (2009)
144 federal appellate · 20 district · 280 state decisions — followed in 28 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedStumpf v. Mitchell (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Brady v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia · Teague v. Lane · Berger 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 649 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a defendant is represented by competent counsel, the court usually may rely on that counsel's assurance that the defendant has been properly informed of the nature and elements of the charge to which he is pleading guilty.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e have never held that the judge must himself explain the elements of each charge to the defendant on the record. Rather, the constitutional prerequisites of a valid plea may be satisfied where the record accurately reflects that the nature of the charge and the elements of the crime were explained to the defendant by his [or her] own, competent counsel.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently, `with sufficient awareness of the relevant circumstances and likely consequences.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gladney v. State · Carroll 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.