56 Md. App. 38 - Banks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Gianiny v. State (1990), 173 W. Va. 658 - Myers v. Frazier (1984)
2 district · 53 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 Santobello v. New York · Kerr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California · Brower v. United States · United States v. Blackwell · United States v. Jerry
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is also a broad policy question at stake. If the prosecutor cannot rely upon the plea bargain, the potential ‘chilling effect’ upon the very institution of plea bargaining could be devastating.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(а) Conditions for agreement.—The defendant may enter into an agreement with the State’s Attorney for a plea of guilty or nolo contendere on any proper condition, including one or more of the following: # ;J; sj* íjí (б) That the parties will submit a plea agreement proposing a particular sentence, disposition, or other judicial action to a judge for consideration pursuant to section (c) of this Rule. (c) Agreement of Sentence, Disposition, or Other Judicial Actions. (1) Presentation to the court.—If a plea agreement has been reached pursuant to subsection (a)(6) of this Rule for a plea of guilty or nolo contendere which contemplates a particular sentence, disposition, or other judicial action, the defense counsel and the State’s Attorney shall advise the judge of the terms of the agreement when the defendant pleads. The judge may then accept or reject the plea and, if accepted, may approve the agreement or defer decision as to its approval or rejection until after such pre-sentence proceedings and investigation as the judge directs. (2) Not binding on the court.—The agreement of the State’s Attorney relating to a particular sentence, disposition, or other judicial action is not binding on the court unless the judge to whom the agreement is presented approves it. (3) Approval of plea agreement—If the plea agreement is approved, the judge shall embody in the judgment the agreed sentence, disposition, or other judicial action encompassed in the agreement or, with the consent of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Chertkov v. State“the agreement is one which punishes the defendant for his act as well as satisfies the public interest that justice be not thwarted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.