Dodd v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Townsend v. Sain · Brady v. United States · McMann v. Richardson
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[H]e was going to receive like five years, instead of six months, so he decided to take a plea of guilty, and take the six months.” See, Ex. E, Hearing Pursuant to Rule 3.850 Motion, (translation of interpreter), p. 13. “We decline to hold ... that a guilty plea is compelled and invalid under the Fifth Amendment whenever motivated by the defendant’s desire to accept the certainty or probability of a lesser penalty rather than face a wider range of possibilities extending from acquittal to conviction and a higher penalty authorized by law for the crime charged.” Dodd v. Williams, 560 F.Supp. 372, 380 (N.D.Georgia 1983), citing Brady v. U.S., 397 U.S. 742 , 90 S.Ct. 1463, 1468 , 25 L.Ed.2d 747 (1970).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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